Shroom

Alternative forms

• 'shroom especially in "mushroom" sense

Origin

Shortened from mushroom.

Full definition of shroom

Noun

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, usually in plural) A magic mushroom: a hallucinogenic fungus.

Verb

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

Derived terms

• shroomer