"yo-yo club" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From the image of the club moving and down between leagues like a yo-yo.",
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          "ref": "2018 December 12, Jonathan Clegg, Joshua Robinson, The Club: How the Premier League Became the Richest, Most Disruptive Business in Sport, Hachette UK, →ISBN:",
          "text": "A yo-yo club usually found bouncing between the top flight and the second tier, Leicester had spent the majority of the Premier League era outside of the Premier League.",
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          "ref": "2020 July 24, Richard Cox, Dave Russell, Wray Vamplew, Encyclopedia of British Football, Routledge, →ISBN:",
          "text": "The late 1970s and early '80s were notable for three clubs that had a particular notoriety as 'yo-yo clubs': they were Leicester City, Wolverhampton Wanderers and Birmingham City",
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          "ref": "2023 January 24, Stephen Morrow, The People's Game?: Football, Finance and Society, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 25:",
          "text": "It would do nothing, however, to increase those clubs' chances of surviving in that top division as their financial resources would be diminished compared to the existing yo-yo clubs and would be likely to result in more 'one-season wonder' clubs.",
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        "A club that experiences a run of alternating promotions and relegations in quick succession."
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(soccer) A club that experiences a run of alternating promotions and relegations in quick succession."
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        "ball-games",
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      "wikipedia": [
        "Leicester City F.C."
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  "etymology_text": "From the image of the club moving and down between leagues like a yo-yo.",
  "forms": [
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    }
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(soccer) A club that experiences a run of alternating promotions and relegations in quick succession."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "ball-games",
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        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
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      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Leicester City F.C."
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