Noun: BlackBerry
| Singular | BlackBerry |
| Plural | BlackBerrys; BlackBerries |
Sample Sentences
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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. [2007, Daniel Hoffman, Blackjacking: Security Threats to BlackBerry® Devices, PDAs, and Cell Phones in the Enterprise, Wiley Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 49:]
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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. [2007 November, Gil Schwartz, “Escape from the job monster”, in Men's Health, volume 22, number 9, →ISSN, page 120:]
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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. [2014, John Timpson, Ask John: Straight-Talking, Common Sense from the Front Line of Management, Icon Books, →ISBN:]
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Thugga and the rest of the group communicated using BlackBerrys set up so that messages would automatically delete after 48 hours. [2023, David White, Angus Gillies, “All roads lead north”, in Far North, Echo Publishing, →ISBN:]
Nouns inflected like BlackBerry
simily,
react Andy,
Hooray Henry,
roly-poly,
millijansky,
Demmy,
satrapy,
Susan B. Anthony,
dundreary,
Colby,
Lilly,
Jimmy,
'Arry,
droshky,
drostdy,
Johnny,
microjansky,
Taffy,
glengarry,
BlackBerry, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Brand name, from the resemblance of the keyboard's buttons to the skin of a fruit.