Meaning of Blackberry | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A fruit-bearing shrub of the aggregate species Rubus fruticosus and some hybrids.
2. A wireless handheld device, a cross between a cellphone and a mobile email appliance and Internet-capable PDA, marketed by BlackBerry Limited.
3. The soft fruit borne by this shrub, formed of a black (when ripe) cluster of drupelets.
4. Any Rubus berry that is black or blackish; the plant that produces it.
   broadly, informal
5. The blackcurrant.
   UK, dialectal

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Examples

“Here at the creek, a ways off from the trail, we have blackberries for now, not as fat and sweet as they get, but I like them tart, with that little bit of red still at their tops, or if they’re just a little hard and not so soft they come off when you pull at them and leave your fingers stained.”

“Knowing that DA, Inc. was using BlackBerrys, the CEO of the competition hired an underground hacker to come up with a way to thwart the competition.”

“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.”

“Posers using BlackBerrys on the button lift can be pretty irritating, but I bet it gives a lot of pleasure whenever an unfortunate captain of industry drops his vital little device in the snow.”

“Thugga and the rest of the group communicated using BlackBerrys set up so that messages would automatically delete after 48 hours.”

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