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Possum

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Noun

opossum.
Australian . any of various phalangers, esp. of the genus Trichosurus. ?

Idiom

play possum
Informal .
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.

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