Find yourself unable to cope with the relentless pressures of top-level competition, and, for some, you're a lightweight, a weakling, a bottler.

BBC: Bitter-sweet sympathy

Mr. De Sena accurately sized me up as a weakling and tried to put the rewards of Spartan Sprint participation in terms I could understand.

WSJ: This Is One That's for the Spartans

He would rather have inherited a quiet, rich country, not a poor weakling bordered by such enemies as Israel, which sits in taunting occupation of a mountain-top that can be seen from his palace windows on a clear day.

ECONOMIST: Why Syria's president, Bashar Assad, is in such a bind

" But on other issues, he notes, the administration takes a different tack: "When it comes to global warming, they're a 97-pound weakling and they say they can't do anything.

NPR: Supreme Court Hears Global Warming Arguments

"It's ironic that the Bush Administration, which acts like Superman most of the time, doing exactly what it wants to, is acting like a 97-pound weakling in this case, saying it doesn't have the authority to act, " says David Doniger, lead attorney on the case for the National Resources Defense Council.

FORBES: Supreme Court Takes On Global Warming?

Contrary to what its name might suggest, Mega might be the weakling of the pair, rocking a mere QVGA display, which as far as modern WinMo sets go, is pretty much the only spec we need to know to put us to sleep.

ENGADGET: HTC Leo and Mega to be awesome and not-so-awesome, respectively?

Kazakhs consider Kirgizstan to be an economic weakling and some even refer to the country as a Kazakh province.

ECONOMIST: Kirgizstan

Anti-trust law is rooted in the assumption that powerful business entities will keep out new competitors if their rise is unchecked, but ESPN's ascent from weakling to sports behemoth proves that the present is a faulty predictor of the future.

FORBES: Political Economy

And while it used to require a certain set of characteristics to thrive as a bully, the internet makes it simple for almost anyone to graduate from cowering weakling to kicking virtual sand in the face of friends and strangers in no time.

FORBES: Jimmy Wong Saves the Internet