shroom

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.

Verb

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

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