English
warn|neologism
Alternative spellings
Crackberry
Etymology
Blend of crack, the addictive drug, and BlackBerry?, the handheld device
Noun
crackberry (plural: crackberries)
- A BlackBerry?, a handheld device considered addictive for its networking capability.
#*2001 May 16, Steve Pyles, �Blackberry Service around WDW�, <tt>rec.arts.disney.parks</tt>, Usenet
#*: many people call theirs a CrackBerry?. This thing is absolutely addictive! <!--double spaced--> This unit can websurf, send/receive email, ...
#*2003 December 1, Greg Brown, Latin Trade, Freedom Magazines, Inc.
#*: BlackBerry? 7210
#*: Phone and handheld computer US$449 www.blackberry.com
#*: The corporate gold standard, once called "crackberries" in Silicon Valley because executives seemed addicted to them.
#*2005 March 1, Ron Seigneur (interviewee), Rick Telberg (author), Journal of Accountancy, American Institute of CPA's
#*: I just moved to a Treo 600 to replace my old cell phone and my Palm Pilot. Not quite a "Crackberry," but I just cannot stand those who have to check e-mail every five minutes.
#*2005 October 1, Waxer, Cindy, Chief Executive (U.S.), Chief Executive Publishing
#*: Today, over 50,000 organizations and 3 million subscribers count on BlackBerry?, dubbed 'crackberry<nowiki>'</nowiki> for its addictiveness, to receive and deliver email messages on the spot.
#*2005 October, Paul Cunningham and M. Cunningham (editors), Innovation and the Knowledge Economy: Issues, Applications, Case Studies, page 1368, IOS Press
#*: The Blackberry mobile office typifies this workstyle with...levels of stress generated in the individual such that productivity may be quantitative but not necessarily qualitative (the �Crackberry� syndrome).
#*2006 February, Bill Sammon, Strategery: How George W. Bush Is Defeating Terrorists, Outwitting Democrats, and Confounding the the Mainstream Media, Regnery Publishing
#*:Roberts seemed driven to distraction by whatever was on the screen of his "crackberry"�which is what the infernal devices were nicknamed by their hopelessly addicted users.
#*2006 May, Thomas Louis Ampeliotis, Pursuit of a Perfectionist, page 9, iUniverse
#*: It is a goal that...I have been obsessing over, and emailing myself on my crackberry so I don�t forget ideas, and one that I bother my friends with constantly.
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