Huckleberry Finn

plural Huckleberry Finns · alternative Huck Finn

1. A person who has a boyish innocence and a spirit of curiosity, along with a reluctance to accept social norms and a desire for exploration and adventure (especially exploring by floating down a river).

   the white outsider with the tattered vest, the Huck Finn of the 20th century, Nelson Muntz

   2021, Sandra Danneil, Trick, Treat, Transgress: The Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror as a Popular-Culture History of the Digital Age, Schüren Verlag, page 47

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   George Bancroft, the Huckleberry Finn of the American screen, comes back with one of his best performances in "The Docks of New York".

   1928 May, Helen Malmud, “Stage and Screen”, in The Vanguard, Vanguard Publishing Company, page 70

   (Mickey Rooney) was the Huckleberry Finn of America. Every kid wanted to be like him but no dame wanted to be married to him. Because he wasn't handsome. To them, he was a crazy little kid.

   2015, Richard A. Lertzman, William J. Birnes, The Life and Times of Mickey Rooney, Gallery Books, page 270

   The son of missionary parents from the U.S., he had been raised in a small Cofan Indian village just downriver from Lago Agrio, where he blossomed into the Huckleberry Finn of the upper Amazon.

   2012, David Quammen, The Flight of the Iguana: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, page 33