touchdownn.

Brit.

/ˈtʌtʃdaʊn/, U.S.

/ˈtətʃˌdaʊn/

Forms: 1800s touches down (plural), 1800s– touchdown.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: to touch down at touch v. Phrasal verbs.

Etymology: < to touch down at touch v. Phrasal verbs.

a. Rugby. An act of grounding the ball behind the try line; spec. (a) an act of grounding the ball on or behind the opposing team's try line, as a result of which a try is awarded; (now usually colloquial) a try; (b) an act of grounding the ball on or behind one's own try line as a defensive tactic, esp. in order to prevent the opposing team from scoring.Although the official rules of the game only use touchdown in sense 1a(b), sense 1a(a) is more common in informal use.Before the introduction of the points system in scoring and the codification and widespread adoption of the RFU Laws (1871), the number of occasions on which a team forced the opposing team to make a touchdown behind its own try line (sense 1a(b)) was often reported as part of the score (see quot. 1876); cf. minor point n. at minor adj. and n. Compounds 2, rouge n.² 2a, touch-in-goal n. 2.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > rugby football > [noun] > scoring

touch1845

run-in1846

rouge1856

touchdown1856

touch-in-goal1869

try1870

minor1883

minor point1884

pot1888

major point1896

penalty try1922

conversion1927

pushover1940

1856 Bell's Life 19 Oct. 7/6 A splendid kick (off a touch down of Brand's)..ended in a goal.

1864 Field 29 Oct. 315/1 The School..obtaining two ‘touches down’, which Poole..was unable to turn into a goal.

1876 Hampshire Advertiser 5 Feb. 6/2 The return match between these clubs..resulted in an easy victory for the Magpies by three goals, six tries, and six touchdowns to nothing.

1930 Financial Times 28 Feb. 11/5 L. Bywater won a thrilling race for the touchdown.

1950 Times 2 Jan. 2/5 They forced a touchdown and drop-out.

1955 Times 10 Oct. 4/6 One of the Richmond forwards, beat the last Saracen by inches for the touchdown.

2009 Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) (Nexis) 10 June 13 The Warriors failed to score again in the final 30 minutes after Brown's touchdown.

2012 Taranaki (N.Z.) Daily News (Nexis) 22 Oct. 24 They went close, Canterbury flyer Johnny McNicholl saving the home side with a finger tip touchdown in his own in-goal ahead of several desperate Taranaki men.

b. American Football and Canadian Football. An act of scoring by carrying or passing the ball over the opposing team's goal line. Cf. to touch down 1b at touch v. Phrasal verbs.The rules and scoring systems of both American and Canadian football developed from rugby football during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As in rugby, a player was originally required to touch the ball to the ground on or behind the opposing team's goal line in order to be entitled to attempt to win an extra point by kicking a goal. In 1889 the requirement for the ball to be touched to the ground was removed. The touchdown itself eventually became the primary method of scoring in the game; a touchdown now scores six points.safety touchdown: see the first element.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > American football > [noun] > scoring

touchdown1876

field goal1883

TD1953

1876 in P. H. Davis Football, Amer. Intercollegiate Game (1911) 462 A match shall be decided by a majority of touchdowns.

1889 Cornell (N.Y.) Daily Sun 11 Apr. 2/2 The changes which have been made in the rules to govern all intercollegiate football contests have been completed and will shortly be published... Rule 4 provides that a touchdown can be made by carrying or kicking the ball ‘in goal’ or ‘touch in goal’.

1895 Outing 27 249/2 Canadian system of scoring... A ‘touch-down’ or ‘try’ consists of four points with the privilege of trying a kick at the goal, which, if successful, nets the team which scored two points more.

1949 Desplaines Valley News (Summit, Illinois) 28 Oct. 7/3 Harvard could not push across a touchdown in the first half.

1977 New Yorker 9 May 122/2 A figure holding hands overhead like a referee indicating a touchdown.

2009 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 29 Sept. b15/3 He..pushed himself up with his left hand and gained 20 more yards to set up the second touchdown.

2. The moment at which an aircraft or spacecraft makes contact with the ground during landing; the action of making contact with the ground during landing; an instance of this. Also more generally: the landing of an aircraft or spacecraft.

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society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [noun] > landing

landing1784

alighting1914

air landing1919

touchdown1935

dead-stick landing1946

set-down1951

1935 P. W. F. Mills Elem. Pract. Flying vii. 102 [The purpose] of causing the actual touchdown, when it takes place, to take place with the aeroplane in its natural position on the ground.

1961 H. H. Kolbe Handbk. Astronaut. Engin. xxvii. 7 The term landing, when used in a discussion of space flight, actually can be considered as four phases: i.e., the exit from orbit, the reentry, the letdown, and the touchdown.

1975 Daily Tel. 11 Aug. 11/4 One vehicle will make a soft touchdown on Mars while the large spacecraft which carried it on its journey will remain in orbit.

2015 Sun (Nexis) 26 June 5 After touchdown, the passengers were brought from the Boeing 787 to attend a party.

3. The moment at which a tornado makes contact with the ground; the touching of the ground by a tornado; an instance of this.

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1958 Hutchinson (Kansas) News 11 June 1/7 At 4:50 p.m., 55 minutes prior to touchdown time of the funnel, the Weather Bureau office at Wichita called..the Newton police department reporting that radar screens were charting strong echoes from a cloud formation between Newton and Walton.

1982 R. J. Hung & R. E. Smith in E. M. Agee & T. Asai Cloud Dynamics 351 The higher altitude cloud began collapsing approximately 30 minutes before the tornado touchdown.

1997 Economist 22 Feb. 56/2 This year has already seen a number of tornado ‘touchdowns’, as they are called (the rougher sort of touchdown is a ‘pavement peeler’).

2004 Indianapolis Star 31 May (State ed.) a4/4 The National Weather Service issued tornado warnings in counties across Missouri throughout the day, but there were no immediate reports of confirmed sightings or touchdowns.

Compounds

C1. American Football and Canadian Football. Designating a play or manoeuvre resulting in a touchdown, esp. a pass thrown by the quarterback and caught by a receiver.

touchdown catch n.

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1937 Washington Post 14 Nov. x. 5/2 Dick..leaped high for a touchdown catch.

2014 Tampa Bay (Florida) Times (Nexis) 9 Nov. 9 c This year's crop of receivers is on pace to blow past the record for most touchdown catches by a rookie class.

touchdown drive n.

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1921 Fayetteville (Arkansas) Daily Democrat 31 Oct. 1/5 The Texans made only four first downs during the entire game, three of them coming at the time of the prospective touchdown drive which was stopped in the first period.

1980 N.Y. Times 12 Oct. (Late City Final ed.) v. 8/1 Donnie Little, the quarterback, made the clutch plays on the decisive touchdown drive as Texas scored a 20-13 victory over Oklahoma in their annual showdown.

2011 Washington Post (Nexis) 15 Sept. d1 On the team's first touchdown drive, he completed passes to four receivers.

touchdown pass n.

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1924 Atlanta (Georgia) Constit. 9 Nov. 2 c/3 The touchdown pass was for 20 yards.

1988 J. Hunter & A. Keteyian Catfish 89 Vida..had thrown thirty-five touchdown passes his senior year.

2010 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 29 Nov. d7/4 The winning touchdown pass..came on a third-and-10.

touchdown play n.

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1913 Chicago Defender 13 Dec. The absence of the touchdown play is made still more remarkable by noting that Yale also made no touchdown against Harvard or Princeton.

1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 28 Sept. 18/4 He lateralled to Joe Hernandez, who ran the last 45 yards of a 59-yard touchdown play.

1998 Chicago Tribune 5 Oct. iii. 6/2 [He] was one of two primary receivers on his touchdown play, starting from the right and running a quick slant.

touchdown reception n.

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1930 Amarillo (Texas) Sunday News-Globe 7 Dec. 11/6 Coach Cherry had his men rushing the clever Buc passer and his secondary covering the long men to keep any of them from getting behind a halfback or safety man for a touchdown reception.

1947 N.Y. Times 4 Feb. 30/1 Bill Dewell of the Chicago Cardinals was high man in the scoring department, with seven touchdown receptions.

2015 N. Brannen Denver Broncos 360° vi. 258/2 His 80-yard touchdown reception in the second quarter also tied a Super Bowl record.

touchdown run n.

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1895 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Sentinel 17 Nov. 5 They played a game of intricate cris-cros movements..and scored three touch-down runs by Hitchcock, Evans and Hitchcock for thirty, forty and thirty yards.

1940 Life 14 Oct. 47 (headline) Fan tackles Michigan's Harmon on touchdown run.

2012 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 4 Sept. b2/2 He had at least one mental mistake, missing a run-fit when Indiana State tailback Shakir Bell broke loose for a 54-yard touchdown run.

C2. American Football and Canadian Football. Designating a celebration by a player or team immediately after scoring a touchdown.

touchdown celebration n.

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1950 Washington Post 3 Dec. (Sports section) 2/4 Navy cheer leaders called on the corps of Middies to reenact their touchdown celebration for the photographer who had missed it.

1991 Don Heinrich's Pro Preview/91 5/3 Somehow along the goal line, touchdown celebrations got out of hand.

2013 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 21 Jan. b4/4 His second-year quarterback..didn't get a chance to show off his touchdown celebration—flexing his right arm and kissing his bicep.

touchdown dance n.

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1971 N.Y. Times 5 Nov. 49/2 Steve Tannen, who unwittingly helped choreograph Elmo Wright's touchdown dance, may get a chance Sunday to see whether the Kansas City rookie has made any changes in his routine.

1989 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 15 Jan. 9 f There's..the ponytailed running back, whose touchdown dance may be less reminiscent of Fred Astaire than of a desperate man waiting to use the bathroom.

2009 Wall St. Jrnl. 8 May w1/1 He celebrates after goals with moves that could be NFL touchdown dances.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	touchdown
释义	touchdownn. Brit. /ˈtʌtʃdaʊn/, U.S. /ˈtətʃˌdaʊn/ Forms: 1800s touches down (plural), 1800s– touchdown. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: to touch down at touch v. Phrasal verbs. Etymology: < to touch down at touch v. Phrasal verbs. 1. a. Rugby. An act of grounding the ball behind the try line; spec. (a) an act of grounding the ball on or behind the opposing team's try line, as a result of which a try is awarded; (now usually colloquial) a try; (b) an act of grounding the ball on or behind one's own try line as a defensive tactic, esp. in order to prevent the opposing team from scoring.Although the official rules of the game only use touchdown in sense 1a(b), sense 1a(a) is more common in informal use.Before the introduction of the points system in scoring and the codification and widespread adoption of the RFU Laws (1871), the number of occasions on which a team forced the opposing team to make a touchdown behind its own try line (sense 1a(b)) was often reported as part of the score (see quot. 1876); cf. minor point n. at minor adj. and n. Compounds 2, rouge n.² 2a, touch-in-goal n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > rugby football > [noun] > scoring touch1845 run-in1846 rouge1856 touchdown1856 touch-in-goal1869 try1870 minor1883 minor point1884 pot1888 major point1896 penalty try1922 conversion1927 pushover1940 1856 Bell's Life 19 Oct. 7/6 A splendid kick (off a touch down of Brand's)..ended in a goal. 1864 Field 29 Oct. 315/1 The School..obtaining two ‘touches down’, which Poole..was unable to turn into a goal. 1876 Hampshire Advertiser 5 Feb. 6/2 The return match between these clubs..resulted in an easy victory for the Magpies by three goals, six tries, and six touchdowns to nothing. 1930 Financial Times 28 Feb. 11/5 L. Bywater won a thrilling race for the touchdown. 1950 Times 2 Jan. 2/5 They forced a touchdown and drop-out. 1955 Times 10 Oct. 4/6 One of the Richmond forwards, beat the last Saracen by inches for the touchdown. 2009 Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) (Nexis) 10 June 13 The Warriors failed to score again in the final 30 minutes after Brown's touchdown. 2012 Taranaki (N.Z.) Daily News (Nexis) 22 Oct. 24 They went close, Canterbury flyer Johnny McNicholl saving the home side with a finger tip touchdown in his own in-goal ahead of several desperate Taranaki men. b. American Football and Canadian Football. An act of scoring by carrying or passing the ball over the opposing team's goal line. Cf. to touch down 1b at touch v. Phrasal verbs.The rules and scoring systems of both American and Canadian football developed from rugby football during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As in rugby, a player was originally required to touch the ball to the ground on or behind the opposing team's goal line in order to be entitled to attempt to win an extra point by kicking a goal. In 1889 the requirement for the ball to be touched to the ground was removed. The touchdown itself eventually became the primary method of scoring in the game; a touchdown now scores six points.safety touchdown: see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > American football > [noun] > scoring touchdown1876 field goal1883 TD1953 1876 in P. H. Davis Football, Amer. Intercollegiate Game (1911) 462 A match shall be decided by a majority of touchdowns. 1889 Cornell (N.Y.) Daily Sun 11 Apr. 2/2 The changes which have been made in the rules to govern all intercollegiate football contests have been completed and will shortly be published... Rule 4 provides that a touchdown can be made by carrying or kicking the ball ‘in goal’ or ‘touch in goal’. 1895 Outing 27 249/2 Canadian system of scoring... A ‘touch-down’ or ‘try’ consists of four points with the privilege of trying a kick at the goal, which, if successful, nets the team which scored two points more. 1949 Desplaines Valley News (Summit, Illinois) 28 Oct. 7/3 Harvard could not push across a touchdown in the first half. 1977 New Yorker 9 May 122/2 A figure holding hands overhead like a referee indicating a touchdown. 2009 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 29 Sept. b15/3 He..pushed himself up with his left hand and gained 20 more yards to set up the second touchdown. 2. The moment at which an aircraft or spacecraft makes contact with the ground during landing; the action of making contact with the ground during landing; an instance of this. Also more generally: the landing of an aircraft or spacecraft. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [noun] > landing landing1784 alighting1914 air landing1919 touchdown1935 dead-stick landing1946 set-down1951 1935 P. W. F. Mills Elem. Pract. Flying vii. 102 [The purpose] of causing the actual touchdown, when it takes place, to take place with the aeroplane in its natural position on the ground. 1961 H. H. Kolbe Handbk. Astronaut. Engin. xxvii. 7 The term landing, when used in a discussion of space flight, actually can be considered as four phases: i.e., the exit from orbit, the reentry, the letdown, and the touchdown. 1975 Daily Tel. 11 Aug. 11/4 One vehicle will make a soft touchdown on Mars while the large spacecraft which carried it on its journey will remain in orbit. 2015 Sun (Nexis) 26 June 5 After touchdown, the passengers were brought from the Boeing 787 to attend a party. 3. The moment at which a tornado makes contact with the ground; the touching of the ground by a tornado; an instance of this. ΚΠ 1958 Hutchinson (Kansas) News 11 June 1/7 At 4:50 p.m., 55 minutes prior to touchdown time of the funnel, the Weather Bureau office at Wichita called..the Newton police department reporting that radar screens were charting strong echoes from a cloud formation between Newton and Walton. 1982 R. J. Hung & R. E. Smith in E. M. Agee & T. Asai Cloud Dynamics 351 The higher altitude cloud began collapsing approximately 30 minutes before the tornado touchdown. 1997 Economist 22 Feb. 56/2 This year has already seen a number of tornado ‘touchdowns’, as they are called (the rougher sort of touchdown is a ‘pavement peeler’). 2004 Indianapolis Star 31 May (State ed.) a4/4 The National Weather Service issued tornado warnings in counties across Missouri throughout the day, but there were no immediate reports of confirmed sightings or touchdowns. Compounds C1. American Football and Canadian Football. Designating a play or manoeuvre resulting in a touchdown, esp. a pass thrown by the quarterback and caught by a receiver. touchdown catch n. ΚΠ 1937 Washington Post 14 Nov. x. 5/2 Dick..leaped high for a touchdown catch. 2014 Tampa Bay (Florida) Times (Nexis) 9 Nov. 9 c This year's crop of receivers is on pace to blow past the record for most touchdown catches by a rookie class. touchdown drive n. ΚΠ 1921 Fayetteville (Arkansas) Daily Democrat 31 Oct. 1/5 The Texans made only four first downs during the entire game, three of them coming at the time of the prospective touchdown drive which was stopped in the first period. 1980 N.Y. Times 12 Oct. (Late City Final ed.) v. 8/1 Donnie Little, the quarterback, made the clutch plays on the decisive touchdown drive as Texas scored a 20-13 victory over Oklahoma in their annual showdown. 2011 Washington Post (Nexis) 15 Sept. d1 On the team's first touchdown drive, he completed passes to four receivers. touchdown pass n. ΚΠ 1924 Atlanta (Georgia) Constit. 9 Nov. 2 c/3 The touchdown pass was for 20 yards. 1988 J. Hunter & A. Keteyian Catfish 89 Vida..had thrown thirty-five touchdown passes his senior year. 2010 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 29 Nov. d7/4 The winning touchdown pass..came on a third-and-10. touchdown play n. ΚΠ 1913 Chicago Defender 13 Dec. The absence of the touchdown play is made still more remarkable by noting that Yale also made no touchdown against Harvard or Princeton. 1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 28 Sept. 18/4 He lateralled to Joe Hernandez, who ran the last 45 yards of a 59-yard touchdown play. 1998 Chicago Tribune 5 Oct. iii. 6/2 [He] was one of two primary receivers on his touchdown play, starting from the right and running a quick slant. touchdown reception n. ΚΠ 1930 Amarillo (Texas) Sunday News-Globe 7 Dec. 11/6 Coach Cherry had his men rushing the clever Buc passer and his secondary covering the long men to keep any of them from getting behind a halfback or safety man for a touchdown reception. 1947 N.Y. Times 4 Feb. 30/1 Bill Dewell of the Chicago Cardinals was high man in the scoring department, with seven touchdown receptions. 2015 N. Brannen Denver Broncos 360° vi. 258/2 His 80-yard touchdown reception in the second quarter also tied a Super Bowl record. touchdown run n. ΚΠ 1895 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Sentinel 17 Nov. 5 They played a game of intricate cris-cros movements..and scored three touch-down runs by Hitchcock, Evans and Hitchcock for thirty, forty and thirty yards. 1940 Life 14 Oct. 47 (headline) Fan tackles Michigan's Harmon on touchdown run. 2012 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 4 Sept. b2/2 He had at least one mental mistake, missing a run-fit when Indiana State tailback Shakir Bell broke loose for a 54-yard touchdown run. C2. American Football and Canadian Football. Designating a celebration by a player or team immediately after scoring a touchdown. touchdown celebration n. ΚΠ 1950 Washington Post 3 Dec. (Sports section) 2/4 Navy cheer leaders called on the corps of Middies to reenact their touchdown celebration for the photographer who had missed it. 1991 Don Heinrich's Pro Preview/91 5/3 Somehow along the goal line, touchdown celebrations got out of hand. 2013 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 21 Jan. b4/4 His second-year quarterback..didn't get a chance to show off his touchdown celebration—flexing his right arm and kissing his bicep. touchdown dance n. ΚΠ 1971 N.Y. Times 5 Nov. 49/2 Steve Tannen, who unwittingly helped choreograph Elmo Wright's touchdown dance, may get a chance Sunday to see whether the Kansas City rookie has made any changes in his routine. 1989 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 15 Jan. 9 f There's..the ponytailed running back, whose touchdown dance may be less reminiscent of Fred Astaire than of a desperate man waiting to use the bathroom. 2009 Wall St. Jrnl. 8 May w1/1 He celebrates after goals with moves that could be NFL touchdown dances. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1856
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