Definition of "huckleberry"

huckleberry

/ˈhʌkl̩ˌbɛɹi/

noun
plural huckleberries
1. A small round fruit of a dark blue or red color of several plants in the related genera Vaccinium and Gaylussacia.
  Quotations
  I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
  1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients
2. A shrub growing this fruit.
3. A small amount, a short distance, as in the phrase huckleberry above a persimmon.
  Quotations
  Porter preferred prose to poetry. Prose seemed to him to be a concrete, practical form of expression. But poetry, as he informed a poet who signed his name “Evergreen,” was “a huckleberry beyond us.”
  1967, Richard Boyd Hauck, The Literary Content of the New York Spirit of the Times, 1831-1856, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Illinois, page 88
4. (slang) A person of little consequence.
5. (US, slang) The person one is looking for; the right person for the job.
verb
third-person singular simple present huckleberries, present participle huckleberrying, simple past and past participle huckleberried
1. (intransitive) To pick huckleberries.