shroom

English

shroom (plural shrooms)

(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.
(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: […].

hallucinogenic fungus — see magic mushroom

any mushroom — see mushroom

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

(intransitive, slang) To take magic mushrooms.
- 2012, Michael E. Monahan, College Boy, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 23:
  Not just because it was sophmoric^[sic] 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.