Usually means: Pretend to be dead defensively.
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  1. play possum: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. play possum: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. play possum: Collins English Dictionary
  4. play possum: Vocabulary.com
  5. play possum: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. play possum: Wiktionary
  7. play possum: Dictionary.com
  8. Play possum: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  10. play possum: Free Dictionary
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  1. play possum: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (play possum)

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

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