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shroom en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ʃɹuːm/
  • (Australia) audio

Etymology

Clipping of mushroom.

Meanings

  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.
    • 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:
    • 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:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
'shroom alternative lexicographic
shrooms Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

shroomy

shroom en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ʃɹuːm/
  • (Australia) audio

Etymology

Clipping of mushroom.

Meanings

  1. (intransitive, slang) To take magic mushrooms.
    • 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:
    • 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:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
'shroom alternative lexicographic
shrooms Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
shroomed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
shroomed Tense=Past lexicographic
shrooming Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Deriveds

shroomhead · shroomer