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top flight en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. The highest league or division.
    • The visitors had not managed an away win in the top flight since the final day of last season, but Mauro Formica set the tone in the second minute with a rasping 25-yard drive which flew narrowly wide. 2011 October 29, Neil Johnston, “Norwich 3 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC Sport:
    • No team in Spain’s top flight has ever won more points after 13 games. And so a word is increasingly being used: Leicester[.] 2023 November 13, Sid Lowe, “Girona and their boy from the barrio hit new heights on top of La Liga”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

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