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May 27, 2012
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pos•sum



Pronunciation: (pos'um), [key]
—n.
1. opossum.
2. 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.
3. Australian.any of various phalangers, esp. of the genus Trichosurus.

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