touchdown
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- noun
- /ˈtʌtʃdaʊn/
- US
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touchdown
- In American football a touchdown is worth how many points?
- touchdown pass
- catch a touchdown pass
- throw a touchdown pass
In American football a touchdown is worth how many points?
- In American football a touchdown is worth how many points?
- So the last touchdown kind of happened because of me.
- You got to feel good when someone else scores that touchdown that you threw the block, right?
- Dreams of catching the winning touchdown in the Super Bowl.
- All right, Jesse, Americans love a touchdown dance, so you just give us your best, OK?
- Like you catch the ball in football, you make a touchdown.
- That play sets up the Eli's team's winning touchdown, and they go on to win the Super Bowl the very next day.
- It's these projections that they set and you say, OK, is Tom Brady going to throw more than two touchdowns this week?
- Brown, you when you're visualizing catches and touchdowns and celebrations and everything else.
- Punt return, touchdown, kick return touchdown, interception, rushing touchdown, receiving touchdown.
Examples
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The quarterback threw a perfect pass for a touchdown in the final seconds of the game.
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Eddie scores two touchdowns in the second half, bringing the Titans close.
Fiction book (2002) -
You need two more touchdowns to cover that spread.
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Dreams of catching the winning touchdown in the Super Bowl.
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You got to feel good when someone else scores that touchdown that you threw the block, right?
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The Raiders had 3 touchdowns in 1 1 minutes.
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That play sets up the Eli's team's winning touchdown, and they go on to win the Super Bowl the very next day.
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Both players caught touchdown passes for the Skycrackers during the '42 season.
Academic text (2014) -
Cons still down by two touchdowns, but they finally have some momentum.
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Narrator 2: In 1998, Sirr scored the final two touchdowns to give Texas A&M the Big 12 Championship.
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
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The number of points earned in a game or test
Compounds
An extra point you score by kicking the ball through the goal posts after a touchdown
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Touchdown comes from the simple parts touch and down, meaning 'to touch' and 'toward the ground'. That's why in American football a touchdown is when a player puts the ball down in the end zone to score points.