touchdownnoun/ˈtʌt͡ʃ.daʊn/

• 1

  American-footballball-gamesfootballA 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

  ball-gamesgameshobbiesA defensive action of grounding the ball in the team's own in-goal to stop the play.

• 3

  ball-gamesgameshobbiesA 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

  aeronauticsaerospaceaviationThe 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.