touchdown
Substantivin Dialogen belegt
- //ˈtʌt͡ʃ.daʊn//
A six-point score occurring when the ball enters possession of a team's player in the opponent's end zone.
Substantiv
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A six-point score occurring when the ball enters possession of a team's player in the opponent's end zone.
Today I scored my first touchdown.
“I must have caught 45 or 50 touchdowns in that right corner,” he told The Baltimore Sun in 2009. “It was sloped some, a little downhill, which helped me speedwise. I wasn’t all that fast.”
- 2
A defensive action of grounding the ball in the team's own in-goal to stop the play.
- 3
A try (scoring play of grounding the ball in the opposing team's in-goal).
A first Test try by Fergus McFadden and a Tomas O'Leary touchdown helped Ireland to a 15-12 half-time lead.
- 4
The moment when an aircraft or spacecraft makes first or final contact with the ground during a landing.
The passengers audibly relaxed at touchdown.
And I think it's gonna be a long, long time / 'Til touchdown brings me 'round again to find / I'm not the man they think I am at home / Oh, no, no, no[…]
- 5
The moment of contact of a tornado with the ground.
The American Red Cross sent me to Alabama within twenty-four hours of the tornado's touchdown, and I visited the communities of Oak Grove and Rock Creek four subsequent times.
Herkunft
From touch + down.
Formen
- Plural
- touchdowns
touchdown · A six-point score occurring when the ball enters possession of a team's player in the opponent's end zone.
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