good with (the) words

[Ostap]

Boy, that guy's good with the words.
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Hello, teachers. Does the definite article sound idiomatic to native speakers in such a sentence? It seems it's usually used with no article.

 

[probus]

The article is unusual there, but doesn't interfere at all with understandability. I'd say it's just a harmless idiosyncrasy of that speaker, Jimmy Dore.