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Date Posted: 07:02:21 02/17/07 Sat
Author: Eli ("I'll be your huckleberry")
Author Host/IP: pool-68-238-121-152.atl.dsl-w.verizon.net / 68.238.121.152
Subject: "I'll be your huckleberry"

Can someone please tell me the history behind this expression and it's most common meaning? One friend from Alabama said it was a way of calling someone your boyfriend, or asking to be someone's boyfriend. Another friend from Tennessee said it came from the old west; "I'll be your huckabearer" when one gunslinger would use it to comment on his willingness to be a pallbearer at the other's funeral after having shot him.

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