BlackBerry

Brand name, from the resemblance of the keyboard's buttons to the skin of a fruit.[1]

BlackBerry (plural BlackBerries)

1. A wireless handheld device, a cross between a cellphone and a mobile email appliance and Internet-capable PDA, marketed by BlackBerry Limited.
   • 2007 November, Gil Schwartz, “Escape from the job monster”, in Men's Health, volume 22, number 9, →ISSN, page 120:

     A few days ago, I took a walk with my wife and did not take my BlackBerry! That's progress. Of course, I reached into my empty pockets six or seven times, so clearly I have a long way to go.

• BlackBerried
• crackberry

BlackBerry (third-person singular simple present BlackBerries, present participle BlackBerrying, simple past and past participle BlackBerried)

1. To send a text message or e-mail with a BlackBerry device.
   • 2007, Kristin Gore, Sammy's Hill, Miramax Books, published 2007, →ISBN, page 219:

     "I BlackBerried a sort of risque joke message to this friend of mine — it was totally a joke — but, um, I accidentally sent it to two hundred strangers. […]

   • 2009, Colleen DeBaise, The Wall Street Journal: Complete Small Business Guidebook, Three Rivers Press, published 2009, →ISBN, page 205:

     We've interviewed female entrepreneurs who say they were BlackBerrying up into the final stages of labor; […]

   • 2012, Matthew Zencey, Unlikely Liberal: Sarah Palin's Curious Record as Alaska's Governor, Potomac Books, published 2012, →ISBN, page 144:

     But Revenue Commissioner Pat Galvin told me she was well known for BlackBerrying during face-to-face meetings.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:BlackBerry.

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