good people

English

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Noun

good people (uncountable)

  1. (slang) A good person.
    • 1993, David Wagner, Checkerboard Square: Culture and Resistance in a Homeless Community‎, →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."

Noun

good people pl (plural only)

  1. Synonym of good folk (“magical humanoid creatures”)

References
  • 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.
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