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crackberry

crackberry noun: a BlackBerry, a handheld device considered addictive for its networking capability.

Noun

crackberry (plural crackberries)

  1. (slang) A BlackBerry, a handheld device considered addictive for its networking capability.
    • […]many people call theirs a CrackBerry. This thing is absolutely addictive! This unit can websurf, send/receive email,[…]2001 May 15, Steve Pyles, “Blackberry^([sic]) Service around WDW”, in rec.arts.disney.parks (Usenet), message-ID <S3PSc5WZOHkJ>
    • 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.2003 December 1, Greg Brown, Latin Trade, Freedom Magazines, Inc. BlackBerry 7210

crackberry meaning in Tamil

crackberry in Tamil

அலைபேசிக் கிறுக்கு

Examples of crackberry in a sentence

  • […]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 February, Bill Sammon, “BlackBerry Blues”, in Strategery: How George W. Bush Is Defeating Terrorists, Outwitting Democrats, and...
  • 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.2006 May, Thomas Louis Ampeliotis, “Foundation of a Perfectionist” (chapter 1), in Pursuit of a Perfectionist, Lincoln, Nebraska...
  • My co-workers and especially my wife were repulsed by the “CrackBerry,” and my compulsive grasping at it, like Gollum with his ring.2023 July 7, Ian Bogost, “What Did People Do Before Smartphones?”, in The Atlantic, Washington, D.C., archived from the original on 07 Jul...

Forms of crackberry

pluralcrackberries
alternative formCrackberry
alternative formCrackBerry

Origin of crackberry

Blend of crack + BlackBerry, suggesting the addictive nature of crack cocaine. Compare heroinware.

Questions about crackberry

What does crackberry mean?
Crackberry means a BlackBerry, a handheld device considered addictive for its networking capability.
What is crackberry in Tamil?
Crackberry in Tamil is அலைபேசிக் கிறுக்கு. See Crackberry meaning in Tamil.
How do you use crackberry in a sentence?
[…]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.
What part of speech is crackberry?
Crackberry is a noun.
What is the plural of crackberry?
The plural of crackberry is crackberries.

Words near crackberry in the dictionary

  1. crackas
  2. crackaz
  3. crackback
  4. crackbacks
  5. crackberries
  6. crackberry
  7. crackbrain
  8. crackbrained
  9. crackbrainedness
  10. crackbrains
  11. crackdown

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: crackberry (page history and authors); crackberry (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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