Meanings
nountop flight (plural top flights)
plural top flights
- hobbiesThe highest league or division.
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, →ISSN1 more example
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
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