Usually means: Unequal battle, underdog defies odds.
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We found 6 dictionaries that define the word David and Goliath:

General (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. David-and-Goliath: Wiktionary
  2. David and Goliath (Caravaggio), David and Goliath (book), David and Goliath (disambiguation), David and Goliath, David and goliath: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  3. David and Goliath: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. David and Goliath: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wikipedia (David and Goliath)

noun:  David and Goliath, also known as David with the Head of Goliath or David Victorious over Goliath, is an oil painting by the Italian Baroque master Caravaggio.
noun:  David and Goliath refers to a Bible story and its secular use as a metaphor.
noun:  a 1960 Italian film directed by Ferdinando Baldi and Richard Pottier with sequences filmed in Israel and Yugoslavia.
noun:  David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants is a non-fiction book written by Malcolm Gladwell and published by Little, Brown and Company on October 1, 2013.
noun:  a painting of David and Goliath by the seventeenth-century artist Artemisia Gentileschi.
noun:  (Italian: Davide e Golia) an oil painting by the Venetian painter Titian.


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