Usually means: Marsupial with nocturnal, arboreal habits.
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  1. possum: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. possum: Merriam-Webster
  3. possum: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. possum: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. possum: Collins English Dictionary
  6. possum: Vocabulary.com
  7. Possum, possum: Wordnik
  8. possum: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. possum: Wiktionary
  10. possum: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. possum: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. possum: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Possum, possum: Dictionary.com
  14. possum: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. possum: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Possum (disambiguation), Possum, The Possum: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Possum: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. possum: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. possum: Rhymezone
  20. Possum: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. possum: FreeDictionary.org
  22. possum: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. possum: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. possum: Encyclopedia

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  2. possum: Medical dictionary

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  2. POSSUM: Acronym Finder
  3. possum: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. possum, possum: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Possum, possum: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See possuming as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (US) An opossum, a marsupial of the family Didelphidae of the Americas.
noun:  Any of the marsupials in several families of the order Diprotodontia of Australia and neighboring islands.
verb:  (intransitive) To play possum; to feign sleep, illness, or death.

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