possum
noun/ˈpɒsəm/
/ˈpɑːsəm/
(Australian English, New Zealand English or North American English, informal) (also opossum British and North American English)
Idioms - a small American or Australian animal that lives in trees and carries its young in a pouch (= a pocket of skin on the front of the mother’s body)Word Originearly 17th cent.: shortening of opossum.
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See possum in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryplay possum
- (informal) to pretend to be asleep or not aware of something, in order to trick somebody
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