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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 meanings

noun

  1. A small round fruit of a dark blue or red color of several plants in the related genera Vaccinium and Gaylussacia.

  2. A shrub growing this fruit.

  3. A small amount, a short distance, as in the phrase huckleberry above a persimmon.

  4. slangA person of little consequence.

  5. USslangThe person one is looking for; the right person for the job.

    “I'm your huckleberry.”

  6. Any of various dark-fruited as distinguished from blue-fruited blueberriesplant

  7. Any of several shrubs of the genus Gaylussacia bearing small berries resembling blueberriesplant

  8. Blue-black berry similar to blueberries and bilberries of the eastern United Statesfood

verb

  1. To pick huckleberries.

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USThe person one is looking for; the right person for the job.

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