"top flight" meaning in English

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      "tags": [
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011 October 29, Neil Johnston, “Norwich 3 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC Sport",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 November 13, Sid Lowe, “Girona and their boy from the barrio hit new heights on top of La Liga”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
          "text": "No team in Spain’s top flight has ever won more points after 13 games. And so a word is increasingly being used: Leicester[.]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "The highest league or division."
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          "league",
          "league"
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          "division",
          "division"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(sports) The highest league or division."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
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  "word": "top flight"
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          "ref": "2011 October 29, Neil Johnston, “Norwich 3 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC Sport",
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 November 13, Sid Lowe, “Girona and their boy from the barrio hit new heights on top of La Liga”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
          "text": "No team in Spain’s top flight has ever won more points after 13 games. And so a word is increasingly being used: Leicester[.]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The highest league or division."
      ],
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        ],
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        "(sports) The highest league or division."
      ],
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        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
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  "word": "top flight"
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