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Blackberry

//ˈblækbɛɹi// noun, verb, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A fruit-bearing shrub of the aggregate species Rubus fruticosus and some hybrids.
  2. 2
    A wireless handheld device, a cross between a cellphone and a mobile email appliance and Internet-capable PDA, marketed by BlackBerry Limited.

    "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."

  3. 3
    large sweet black or very dark purple edible aggregate fruit of any of various bushes of the genus Rubus wordnet
  4. 4
    The soft fruit borne by this shrub, formed of a black (when ripe) cluster of drupelets.

    "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."

  5. 5
    bramble with sweet edible black or dark purple berries that usually do not separate from the receptacle wordnet
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  1. 6
    Any Rubus berry that is black or blackish; the plant that produces it. broadly, informal
  2. 7
    The blackcurrant. UK, dialectal
Verb
  1. 1
    To gather or forage for blackberries.

    "She had gone up into the tower alone and left them blackberrying in the sun"

  2. 2
    To send a text message or e-mail with a BlackBerry device.

    ""I BlackBerried a sort of risque joke message to this friend of mine — it was totally a joke — but, um, I accidentally sent it to two hundred strangers. […]"

  3. 3
    pick or gather blackberries wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English blakberie, blakeberie (“brambleberry”), from Old English blacu berġe, blæcberġe (attested in plural blaca berġan, equivalent to black + berry.

Etymology 2

From Middle English blakberie, blakeberie (“brambleberry”), from Old English blacu berġe, blæcberġe (attested in plural blaca berġan, equivalent to black + berry.

Etymology 3

Brand name, from the resemblance of the keyboard's buttons to the skin of a fruit.

Etymology 4

Brand name, from the resemblance of the keyboard's buttons to the skin of a fruit.

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