What does hacerse la víctima mean?

ExpressionColoquial

to play the victim

Behaving as though you had been badly treated, to attract sympathy or dodge the blame. The construction hacerse el/la + noun always means pretending: hacerse el tonto, hacerse el sueco, hacerse la loca. Said seriously it is a serious charge; between friends it is pure banter.

No te hagas la víctima, que empezaste tú.
The accusation, and the reason it was needed.

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