DCHP-2

huckleberry [prob. a variant of hurtleberry] DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• 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.