English

Alternative forms

• 'shroom (especially in “mushroom” sense)

Noun

shroom ‎(plural shrooms)

1. (informal, rare) A mushroom.
   • 2000, Karen Brooks et al., Dude Food: Recipes for the Modern Guy, Chronicle Books, ISBN 978-0-8118-1679-3, 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 978-1-58008-190-0, 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 978-0-8021-4140-8, page 172:

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

2. (slang, chiefly in the plural) A magic mushroom: a hallucinogenic fungus.

Translations

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

• shroomer
• shroomhead