top-flight adjective 2top flight noun 1forms 1 adjective2 •Of the highest rank, or peak of excellence.Whether the band might have developed into a top-flight act is unknown, for in 1972 most of the group's original core members departed. — 1990 •In the highest division.However, despite their wretched record of not having won a top-flight away game in their last 26 attempts, Fulham showed no signs of travel sickness against Stoke. — 2010 top flight noun1 •The 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 formstop flights