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touchdown definition

☆ touch·down (-do̵un′)

noun

    1. the act of touching down, or landing
    2. the moment at which a landing aircraft or spacecraft touches the landing surface
  2. Football a scoring play, worth six points, in which a player reaches the opponent's end zone with the ball

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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