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Idiom
3.
play possum, Informal.
a.
to feign sleep or death.
b.
to dissemble or pretend ignorance: The baseball broke the window, but the children played possum when asked who had thrown it.
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Possum
is always a great word to know.
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| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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Example Sentences
- We have neighbors with dogs, and a possum that sits on the fence in the evening, so our dogs do bark.
- The inquest was perfunctory, as if a possum had been washed ashore.
- One of them dies, and the other survives by playing possum using his friend's blood as a disguise.
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World English Dictionary
| possum (ˈpɒsəm) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | an informal name for opossum |
| 2. | (Austral), (NZ) Also called: phalanger any of various Australasian arboreal marsupials, such as Trichosurus vulpecula (brush-tailed phalanger), having dense fur and a long tail: family Phalangeridae |
| 3. | play possum to pretend to be dead, ignorant, asleep, etc, in order to deceive an opponent |
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Word Origin & History
possum
1613, shortened form of opossum (q.v.). Phrase play possum is first recorded 1822.
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American Heritage
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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