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Etymology
Presumably:
touchdown
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back
Noun
The result of a play (usually a
kickoff
or
punt
) in which the ball passes out the back of the
end zone
or a team otherwise gains possession of the ball in their own end zone.
:
The ball sailed into the end zone for a touchback and the Eagles had possession on the 20-yard line.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Touchback \Touch"back`\ (t[u^]ch"b[a^]k`), n. (Football)
The act of touching the football down by a player behind his
own goal line when it received its last impulse from an
opponent; -- distinguished from
safety
touchdown.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet
touchback
n : (American football) a play in which the opposing team has
kicked the football into your end zone
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