touchdown
/ˈtʌt͡ʃ.daʊn/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.96 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A six-point score occurring when the ball enters possession of a team's player in the opponent's end zone.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A defensive action of grounding the ball in the team's own in-goal to stop the play.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A try (scoring play of grounding the ball in the opposing team's in-goal).
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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.”"
- "A first Test try by Fergus McFadden and a Tomas O'Leary touchdown helped Ireland to a 15-12 half-time lead."
- "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[…]"
- "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."
Etymology
From touch + down.