PLAY POSSUM

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

To pretend to be dead

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "play possum" is one way to...):

affect; dissemble; feign; pretend; sham (make believe with the intent to deceive)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

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