"crackberry" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Blend of crack + BlackBerry, suggesting the addictive nature of crack cocaine.",
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          "ref": "2001 May 16, Steve Pyles, “Blackberry Service around WDW”, in rec.arts.disney.parks (Usenet)",
          "text": "many people call theirs a CrackBerry. This thing is absolutely addictive! This unit can websurf, send/receive email, ...",
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          "ref": "2003 December 1, Greg Brown, Latin Trade, Freedom Magazines, Inc. BlackBerry 7210",
          "text": "Phone and handheld computer US$449 www.blackberry.com\nThe corporate gold standard, once called \"crackberries\" in Silicon Valley because executives seemed addicted to them."
        },
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          "text": "2005 March 1, Ron Seigneur (interviewee), Rick Telberg (author), Journal of Accountancy, American Institute of CPA's\nI 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."
        },
        {
          "text": "2005 October 1, Waxer, Cindy, Chief Executive (U.S.), Chief Executive Publishing\nToday, over 50,000 organizations and 3 million subscribers count on BlackBerry, dubbed 'crackberry' for its addictiveness, to receive and deliver email messages on the spot."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005 October, Paul Cunningham, M. Cunningham, editors, Innovation and the Knowledge Economy: Issues, Applications, Case Studies, IOS Press, page 1368",
          "text": "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).",
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          "ref": "2006 February, Bill Sammon, Strategery: How George W. Bush Is Defeating Terrorists, Outwitting Democrats, and Confounding the Mainstream Media, Regnery Publishing",
          "text": "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.",
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        {
          "ref": "2006 May, Thomas Louis Ampeliotis, Pursuit of a Perfectionist, iUniverse, page 9",
          "text": "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.",
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        "A BlackBerry, a handheld device considered addictive for its networking capability."
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        "(slang) A BlackBerry, a handheld device considered addictive for its networking capability."
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          "ref": "2001 May 16, Steve Pyles, “Blackberry Service around WDW”, in rec.arts.disney.parks (Usenet)",
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        {
          "ref": "2003 December 1, Greg Brown, Latin Trade, Freedom Magazines, Inc. BlackBerry 7210",
          "text": "Phone and handheld computer US$449 www.blackberry.com\nThe corporate gold standard, once called \"crackberries\" in Silicon Valley because executives seemed addicted to them."
        },
        {
          "text": "2005 March 1, Ron Seigneur (interviewee), Rick Telberg (author), Journal of Accountancy, American Institute of CPA's\nI 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."
        },
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          "text": "2005 October 1, Waxer, Cindy, Chief Executive (U.S.), Chief Executive Publishing\nToday, over 50,000 organizations and 3 million subscribers count on BlackBerry, dubbed 'crackberry' for its addictiveness, to receive and deliver email messages on the spot."
        },
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          "text": "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).",
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        },
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        },
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