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shroom

/ʃɹuːm/

shroom noun: a magic mushroom: a hallucinogenic fungus.

Noun

shroom (plural shrooms)

  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

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive, 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

Forms of shroom

Noun
pluralshrooms
alternative form'shroom
Verb
third-person singular presentshrooms
present participleshrooming
past participleshroomed
pastshroomed

Origin of shroom

Clipping of mushroom.

Words formed from shroom

Words that rhyme with shroom

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Questions about shroom

What does shroom mean?
Shroom means a magic mushroom: a hallucinogenic fungus.
What part of speech is shroom?
Shroom can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce shroom?
Shroom is pronounced /ʃɹuːm/.
What is the plural of shroom?
The plural of shroom is shrooms.

Words near shroom in the dictionary

  1. shroffing
  2. shroffs
  3. Shroftide
  4. shrog
  5. shrogs
  6. shroom
  7. shroomed
  8. shroomer
  9. shroomers
  10. shroomhead
  11. shroomheads

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