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huckleberry
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As a noun, huckleberry means a small round fruit of a dark blue or red color of several plants in the related genera Vaccinium and Gaylussacia. As a verb, it means pick huckleberries.
Meanings of huckleberry
9 meaningsnoun
A small round fruit of a dark blue or red color of several plants in the related genera Vaccinium and Gaylussacia.
A shrub growing this fruit.
A small amount, a short distance, as in the phrase huckleberry above a persimmon.
slangA person of little consequence.
USslangThe person one is looking for; the right person for the job.
“I'm your huckleberry.”
Any of various dark-fruited as distinguished from blue-fruited blueberriesplant
Any of several shrubs of the genus Gaylussacia bearing small berries resembling blueberriesplant
Blue-black berry similar to blueberries and bilberries of the eastern United Statesfood
verb
To pick huckleberries.
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).