(intransitive) To play possum; to feign sleep, illness, or death.

(US) An opossum, a marsupial of the family Didelphidae of the Americas. / Any of the marsupials in several families of the order Diprotodontia of Australia and neighboring islands.

plural of possum

simple past tense and past participle of possum

present participle of possum

(idiomatic) To feign death; to remain quiet and still to escape attention or remain undetected; to lie low. / (idiomatic) To feign sleep, illness, etc.

present participle of play possum

plural of Leadbeater's possum

Gymnobelideus leadbeateri, an endangered possum of Australia.

Any South American shrewlike marsupial of the family Caenolestidae.