touchdown

CEFRB1

/ˈtʌt͡ʃ.daʊn/

noun

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At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

A defensive action of grounding the ball in the team's own in-goal to stop the play.
A try (scoring play of grounding the ball in the opposing team's in-goal).
A six-point score occurring when the ball enters possession of a team's player in the opponent's end zone.

In context

The passengers audibly relaxed at touchdown.
Today I scored my first touchdown.
A first Test try by Fergus McFadden and a Tomas O'Leary touchdown helped Ireland to a 15-12 half-time lead.

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“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.”
2020 October 29, Richard Goldstein, “Jimmy Orr, a Favorite Target of the Colts’ Unitas, Dies at 85”, in The New York Times
A first Test try by Fergus McFadden and a Tomas O'Leary touchdown helped Ireland to a 15-12 half-time lead.
2011 February 13, Lyle Jackson, “Ireland 22-25 France”, in BBC
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[…]
1972 April 17, Elton John, Bernie Taupin, “Rocket Man”, in Honky Château, performed by Elton John
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.
2003, Jessica McNew, Eyes in a Storm

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