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play dead
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play deadverb
to lie very still, as would a corpse
play deadverb
to act as though defeated while awaiting a chance to attack
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Play Dead
Play Dead is a song by Icelandic singer Björk, and was released as the only single from the soundtrack of the 1993 crime drama The Young Americans. The song was not included in the first edition of Debut but was later included as a bonus track, and the album was re-issued October 11, 1993. The song was written by Jah Wobble, Björk featuring David Arnold, and was produced by Cannon, Arnold, receiving additional production and mixing by Tim Simenon. The song, inspired by the main character of the film, was released in October 1993. A mainly trip hop-influenced track, the song charted in the top-20 in the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Netherlands, Poland, Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. An accompanying music video was released, featuring images from the film. "Play Dead" was included in Björk's 2002 greatest hits album Greatest Hits.
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Play Dead
Play Dead were an English post-punk group from Oxford that grew out of the fading English punk scene in 1980. Though the band was identified with groups like UK Decay and Sex Gang Children, the band felt they didn't belong under the "Gothic" title. The band made three studio albums for four different small labels—Fresh Records, Jungle Records, Situation 2, and Clay Records—before forming their own label, Tanz, for their final album, Company Of Justice, which appeared in 1985. The original lineup of Play Dead was Rob Hickson, Pete Waddleton, Mark "Wiff" Smith, and Re-Vox. In July 1981, Re Vox was replaced by Steven Green. In 1984, Rob and Pete created the project "Mankind's Audio Development" nicknamed M.A.D. Only one single was recorded with the two songs "Craving" and "Sunfeast." Waddleton left the group in 1986 and after a brief period as "The Beastmaster Generals" the band dissolved.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of play dead in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of play dead in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of play dead in a Sentence
One time I was sick with a bug, I had been vomiting all day, but no way was I going to miss a show, i was sitting there beforehand seeing spots in front of my eyes. I had a plan: if I felt sick on stage I was going to faint, play dead, pretend it was part of the script. Didn't happen fortunately.
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- hacerse el muertoSpanish
- بازی مردهPersian
- faire le mortFrench
- pura pura matiIndonesian
- fare il mortoItalian
- играть в мертвыхRussian
- chơi chếtVietnamese
- 假死Chinese
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