play possum
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.94 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Thinking fast, we played possum, hoping the bear wouldn't bother us."
- "The soldier played possum, fooling the sniper."
- "To keep the focus away from his client, the lawyer basically played possum during the entire complex trial, and his tactic paid off with an acquittal."
- "What happened to Job after that I am sure I do not know, but my own impression is that he lay still upon the corpse of his deceased assailant, "playing 'possum" as the Americans say."
- "When we used to get home late at night, I would play possum so my daddy would carry me inside and put me in bed."
- "Though, as it afterwards turned out, the Yankee had money enough about him, and was merely playing the ’possum all the while."