shroom

noun, verb — 3 senses

shroom

noun

/ʃɹuːm/

Etymology Clipping of mushroom.

1

Plural normally, Slang A magic mushroom: a hallucinogenic fungus.

  • 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.2009, Sean Williams, Jesus and the Magic Mushroom, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 33:
2

Informal, Rare Any mushroom.

  • These succulent little shrooms from pop culture scholar Lena Lencek will drive everyone back for seconds.2000, Karen Brooks et al., Dude Food: Recipes for the Modern Guy, Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 83:
  • Shrooms—and I don’t mean the psychedelic kind—are one of those vegetables that you either love or hate.2003, Dave Hirschkop, Crazy from the heat: Dave’s insanity cookbook, Ten Speed Press, →ISBN, page 72:
1 more example
  • To determine how much live protein may be occupying a shroom, try this test: […].2004, Jim Sterba, Frankie’s Place: A Love Story, Grove Press, →ISBN, page 172:
Derived terms
shroomy

shroom

verb

Etymology Clipping of mushroom.

1

Slang To take magic mushrooms.

  • Not just because it was sophmoric^([sic]) and juvenile (which it surely was) but I was shrooming pretty heavily by now.2012, Michael E. Monahan, College Boy, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 23:
  • 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.2014, Mohsin Hamid, Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York and London, Penguin UK, →ISBN:
Derived terms
shroomer, shroomhead

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