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huckleberry [prob. a variant of hurtleberry]

• 1 n. a shrub of the genus Gaylussacia; also its edible, bluish-black berries.

  • This term is also used to refer to the blueberry, Vaccinium sp., as may, in fact, be the case in some of the following quotations.

• 2 n. Slang a trite saying; cliché.