"giant-killing" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the Biblical story of David and Goliath.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "giant-killings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "giant-killing (countable and uncountable, plural giant-killings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "giant-killer"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The slaying of a giant."
      ],
      "id": "en-giant-killing-en-noun-ZsbbhEpv",
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Sports",
          "orig": "en:Sports",
          "parents": [
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "13 87",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2023 June 28, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: Alton to Exeter”, in RAIL, number 986, page 60",
          "text": "My guide tells me of Yeovil's 'considerable glove trade', which is why the giant-killing footie club, Yeovil Town FC, is known as 'The Glovers'.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The defeat of a team by a much weaker opponent."
      ],
      "id": "en-giant-killing-en-noun-bemeKpcJ",
      "links": [
        [
          "sports",
          "sports"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(sports, also used as an adjective) The defeat of a team by a much weaker opponent."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "used as an adjective"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "also",
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "bankuruwase",
          "sense": "defeat of a team by a much weaker opponent",
          "word": "番狂わせ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "kinboshi",
          "sense": "defeat of a team by a much weaker opponent",
          "word": "金星"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "giant-killing"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English uncountable nouns"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From the Biblical story of David and Goliath.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "giant-killings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "giant-killing (countable and uncountable, plural giant-killings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "giant-killer"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The slaying of a giant."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Sports"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2023 June 28, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: Alton to Exeter”, in RAIL, number 986, page 60",
          "text": "My guide tells me of Yeovil's 'considerable glove trade', which is why the giant-killing footie club, Yeovil Town FC, is known as 'The Glovers'.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The defeat of a team by a much weaker opponent."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sports",
          "sports"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(sports, also used as an adjective) The defeat of a team by a much weaker opponent."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "used as an adjective"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "also",
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "bankuruwase",
      "sense": "defeat of a team by a much weaker opponent",
      "word": "番狂わせ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kinboshi",
      "sense": "defeat of a team by a much weaker opponent",
      "word": "金星"
    }
  ],
  "word": "giant-killing"
}