BlackBerry

See also: blackberry

English

Etymology

Brand name.

Noun

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.

Translations

device (transliterations)

• Arabic: بْلَاك بِيرِي m (blāk birī), بْلَاك بِيرِي m (blak berī)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 黑莓手機／黑莓手机, 黑莓手机 (hēiméi shǒujī)

• Greek: Μπλάκ-μπερη (Blák-beri)
• Hebrew: בלקברי m (blaqberi)
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• Japanese: ブラックベリー (burakkuberī)
• Korean: 블랙베리 (beullaekberi)
• Marathi: ब्लॅक्बेरी (blǎkberī)
• Persian: بلک‌بری (blak-beri)
• Russian: Блэ́кберри m (Blɛ́kberri)

Derived terms

• BlackBerried
• crackberry

Verb

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 (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 (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 (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.