BlackBerry

See also: blackberry

English

Etymology

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

Noun

BlackBerry (plural BlackBerries)

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 1054-4836, 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.

Derived terms

BlackBerried
crackberry

Translations

device (transliterations)

Arabic: بْلَاك بِيرِي‎ m (blāk birī), بْلَاك بِيرِي‎ m (blak berī)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 黑莓手機／黑莓手机 (hēiméi shǒujī)
Greek: Μπλάκ-μπερη (Blák-beri)
Hebrew: בלקברי‎ m (blaqberi)
Japanese: ブラックベリー (burakkuberī)
Korean: 블랙베리 (ko) (beullaekberi)
Marathi: ब्लॅक्बेरी (blĕkberī)
Persian: بلک‌بری‎ (blak-beri)
Russian: Блэ́кберри m (Blɛ́kberri)

Verb

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

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.

References

Seward, Zachary M. (January 30, 2013), “RIM renames itself BlackBerry: Here's how that name came to be”, in Quartz‎, retrieved July 27, 2020