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1. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Possum \Pos"sum\, n. [Shortened from opossum.] (Zool.)
   An opossum. [Colloq. U. S.]
   [1913 Webster]

   To play possum, To act possum, to feign ignorance,
      indifference or inattention, with the intent to deceive;
      to dissemble; -- in allusion to the habit of the opossum,
      which feigns death when attacked or alarmed.
      [1913 Webster]
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