play possum

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   to pretend to be dead

   Broaderfeign

Questions about play possum

What does play possum mean?

play possum means "to pretend to be dead".

Is play possum a common word?

play possum is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.