good people (uncountable)
- (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.
good people pl (plural only)
- 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, […]
- 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.