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noun (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! 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 '<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 """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 so I don"t forget ideas, and one that I bother my friends with constantly.
Etymology: Blend of crack, the addictive drug, and BlackBerry?, the handheld device
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