shroom

English

Alternative forms

• 'shroom (especially in “mushroom” sense)

Etymology

Clipping of mushroom.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɹuːm/

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• Rhymes: -uːm

Noun

shroom (plural shrooms)

1. (slang, usually in the plural) A magic mushroom: a hallucinogenic fungus.
   • 2009, Sean Williams, Jesus and the Magic Mushroom, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 33:

     Dosage: The typical amount of beginner “shroom” dosage ranges from 1.5 grams of dried shrooms for a mild experience, to 3.5 grams for an intense experience.

2. (informal, rare) Any mushroom.
   • 2000, Karen Brooks et al., Dude Food: Recipes for the Modern Guy‎^[1], Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 83:

     These succulent little shrooms from pop culture scholar Lena Lencek will drive everyone back for seconds.

   • 2003, Dave Hirschkop, Crazy from the heat: Dave’s insanity cookbook‎^[2], Ten Speed Press, →ISBN, page 72:

     Shrooms—and I don’t mean the psychedelic kind—are one of those vegetables that you either love or hate.

   • 2004, Jim Sterba, Frankie’s Place: A Love Story‎^[3], Grove Press, →ISBN, page 172:

     To determine how much live protein may be occupying a shroom, try this test:  […].

Translations

hallucinogenic fungus — see magic mushroom

any mushroom — see mushroom

Verb

shroom (third-person singular simple present shrooms, present participle shrooming, simple past and past participle shroomed)

1. (intransitive, slang) To take magic mushrooms.
   • 2012, Michael E. Monahan, College Boy, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 23:

     Not just because it was sophmoric and juvenile (which it surely was) but I was shrooming pretty heavily by now.

   • 2014, Mohsin Hamid, Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York and London, Penguin UK, →ISBN:

     Just a few months ago I was in Amsterdam with two old friends from the Lahore art world. On a warm summer night we checked out some galleries and walked along the canals, whirring bicycles and shrooming teenagers passing us in the darkness.

Derived terms

• shroomer
• shroomhead