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.
Idioms
play possum
- (informal) to pretend to be asleep or not aware of something, in order to trick somebody