Definition of "play possum" []

• To feign death; to remain quiet and still to escape attention or remain undetected; to lay low. (verb)
• To feign sleep, illness, etc. (verb)
• To dissemble or to feign ignorance; to disguise or conceal something in order to deceive. (verb)

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