shroom

English

Alternative forms
  • 'shroom (especially in “mushroom” sense)

Etymology

Clipping of mushroom

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -uːm

Noun

shroom (plural shrooms)

  1. (informal, rare) A mushroom.
    • 2000, Karen Brooks et al., Dude Food: Recipes for the Modern Guy‎, 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, 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, Grove Press, →ISBN, page 172:
      To determine how much live protein may be occupying a shroom, try this test:  […].
  2. (slang, usually in the plural) A magic mushroom: a hallucinogenic fungus.

Translations
mushroom — see mushroom
hallucinogenic fungus — see magic 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.

Derived terms
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