major-league

major league

noun
1.
either of the two main professional baseball leagues in the U.S.
2.
a league of corresponding stature in certain other sports, as ice hockey, football, or basketball.

Origin:
1880–85, Americanism

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Major-league is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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ma·jor-league

[mey-jer-leeg]
adjective
1.
Sports. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the major leagues.
2.
belonging to or among the best or most important of its kind: a major-league orchestra.

Origin:
1905–10, Americanism
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