Huckleberry
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Huckleberry was commonly used in the 1800s in conjunction with persimmon as a small unit of measure. Im a huckleberry over your persimmon meant Im just a bit better than you. As a result, huckleberry came to denote idiomatically two things. First, it denoted a small unit of measure, a tad, as it were, and a person who was a huckleberry could be a small, unimportant person--usually expressed ironically in mock self-depreciation. The second and more common usage came to mean, in the words of the Dictionary of American Slang: Second Supplemented Edition (Crowell, 1975):
A man; specif., the exact kind of man needed for a particular purpose. 1936: Well, Im your huckleberry, Mr. Haney. Tully, Bruiser, 37. Since 1880, archaic.
The Historical Dictionary of American Slang which is a multivolume work, has about a third of a column of citations documenting this meaning all through the latter 19th century.
So Im your huckleberry means Im just the man youre looking for! -
In Texas Hold Em, one who often catches the card that they need on the last card dropped (the River). If this happens often enough, they live on the river, just like Huck Finn.
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A gay cracker who provides sexual relief for straight brothers when their women arent around. Similar to strawberry but without the drugs, and given by faggots.
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from the latin phrase huckleberry hound this means pound, as in £1.
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A fish or non-professional in a poker game.
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what once started as just a fuck buddy but turned into the best sex you ever had so hes/shes a keeper AKA huckleberry !!
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an ignorant country person, a bumpkin, a rube, someone ripe for the picking. When you encounter one on the road you say, hi Huck. Hence the name of Twains character.
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An person who, owing to weakness other inferiority, is forced to become another persons bitch.
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Means a backwoods, six toed, inbred yankee who was denied admittance to the American south.
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The edible black or dark blue fruit of several species
of the American genus Gaylussacia, shrubs nearly related to the
blueberries (Vaccinium), and formerly confused with them. The commonest
huckelberry comes from G. resinosa. -
A soft edible blue-black fruit resembling a currant.
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a small, round, dark blue fruit, or the low North American bush on which it grows
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A wild, dark blue berry with hard seeds which resembles the blueberry. They can be eaten plain or baked in in pies and muffins.
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