Can you please tell me what the phrase “I’m your huckleberry” means?

Keith Wellington
Kalkasa, Missouri

According to the New Dictionary of American Slang, the early 1880s phrase, spoken by Doc Holliday (Val Kilmer) in the 1993 movie Tombstone, means “a fool; a dunce. A very mild and affectionate insult.”

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