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good-neighbor (adj.)
also (chiefly British English)
good-neighbour
, adjectival phrase, in reference to U.S. foreign policy, especially in Latin America, 1928, originally in Herbert Hoover.
The good neighbours
is Scottish euphemism for "the fairies" (1580s).