possum: Meaning and Definition of
pos•sum
Pronunciation: (pos'um), [key] — n.
- opossum.
- The baseball broke the window, but the children played possum when asked who had thrown it.
- to feign sleep or death.
- to dissemble or pretend ignorance:The baseball broke the window, but the children played possum when asked who had thrown it.
- any of various phalangers, esp. of the genus Trichosurus.
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