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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024pos•sum /ˈpɑsəm/USA pronunciation n. [countable], pl. -sums, (esp. when thought of as a group) -sum. - Mammalsopossum.
Idioms- Idioms play possum, to pretend to be asleep or dead:She was lying in bed playing possum.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024pos•sum (pos′əm),USA pronunciation n. - Mammalsopossum.
- Idioms play possum, [Informal.]
- to feign sleep or death.
- to dissemble or pretend ignorance:The baseball broke the window, but the children played possum when asked who had thrown it.
- British Terms[Australian.]any of various phalangers, esp. of the genus Trichosurus.
- short for opossum 1605–15, American.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: possum /ˈpɒsəm/ n - an informal name for opossum
- Also called: phalanger Austral NZ any of various Australasian arboreal marsupials, such as Trichosurus vulpecula (brush-tailed phalanger), having dense fur and a long tail: family Phalangeridae
- play possum ⇒ to pretend to be dead, ignorant, asleep, etc, in order to deceive an opponent
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