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   Gentle Annie

   noun

   • 1. a steep slope or hill: ironic Australian, New Zealand "driving across creeks with Gentle Annies on the other side is very trying to the nerves of elderly lady passengers"

   Word Origin late 19th century: perhaps from the name of a famously steep road in New Zealand, between Taihape and Napier.

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