slang or colloquial. As predicate: a person regarded as decent, generous, helpful, or reliable. Now somewhat dated.

figurative. slang. my tulip, ‘my fine fellow’.

slang. Originally U.S. A person who or thing which is an excellent or delightful example of its kind; a very good or commendable person or thing…

So a (bad, good,etc.) sort, applied to a single person. colloquial.

A particularly good or impressive example of something (cf. rattling, adj. 3a); spec. (esp. in early use) (a) a fast horse; (b) Cricket a fast or…

Sometimes applied in compliment to a person who behaves ‘handsomely’; a ‘brick’.

colloquial. one of the best: a good or upstanding person.

colloquial (originally U.S.). A good or virtuous person; esp. one who is on the side of good against evil in a story, film, etc., and whom the…