good people

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good people (uncountable)

  1. (slang) A good person.
    • 1993, David Wagner, Checkerboard Square: Culture and Resistance in a Homeless Community[1], →ISBN, page 143:
      "Oh no, I don't mean him," said Bert, "he's good people. He's on our side, not the system's."
    • 2021 Anne Boonchuy in Amphibia "If You Give a Frog a Cookie"
      Thanks, Terri. You're good people.

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good people pl (plural only)

  1. Synonym of good folk (magical humanoid creatures)
    • 1856, The Train, volumes 1-2, page 168:
      But when she desired an old riven oak to be cut down an oak in which the good people (fairies) loved to assemble — because it impeded some favourite view, the poor old woman almost went mad, []

References

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  • Black Slang: A Dictionary of Afro-American Talk, by Clarence Major, 1971, →ISBN, as an example of the use of people to indicate a single person in African-American vernacular.