Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. excellent, first-rate.

1866		Penny Illus. Paper 15 Dec. 14/1: Choice Bits. Songs for the Fireside.
1880		E.J. Milliken ‘Cad’s Calendar’ in Punch Almanack n.p.: A choice weed, / Licks all flowers that ever run to seed.
1910		Bulletin (Sydney) 13 Oct. 13/1: Mary Ann was something choice, wore an artful smile, / Had her frocks Traralgon-made, in the latest style.
1922		Joyce Ulysses 578: The keeper of the shelter [...] put a boiling swimming cup of a choice concoction labelled coffee on the table and a rather antediluvian specimen of a bun, or so it seemed, after which he beat a retreat to his counter.
c.1939		B. Bennett ‘The Broadcaster’ [music hall script] On His Master’s Voice we’ve a record that’s choice.
1956		J. Curtis Look Long Upon a Monkey 179: Your man, too, wasn’t he very choice, pointing out the right to demand off the magistrates a Legal Aid Certificate?
a.1964		‘Dumbo the Junkie’ in D. Wepman et al. Life (1976) 90: Then I met this choice chick fresh out of school.
1970		A. Young Snakes (1971) 37: Don’t be layin no bogue needles on my choice jams, man!
1986		R. Campbell In La-La Land We Trust (1999) 130: ‘Can I rent for the night?’ ‘Not this stuff, this is choice.’.
1999		K. Sampson Powder 191: Wait till you see her arse, Mr Love. The arse is fucking choice.
2001		OnLine Dict. of Playground Sl. 🌐 choice n. good, great, perfect.
2000		R.G. Barrett Leaving Bondi (2013) [ebook] [T]hey [i.e. movie people] definitely attracted all the choice crumpet.

2. a general intensifier.

1981

J. Ellroy Brown’s Requiem 56: Haywood Cathcart. A choice asshole.