shroom
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- 'shroom (especially in “mushroom” sense)
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
shroom (plural shrooms)
- (slang, usually in the plural) A magic mushroom: a hallucinogenic fungus.
- 2009, Sean Williams, Jesus and the Magic Mushroom, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 33:
- 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.
- (informal, rare) Any mushroom.
Translations edit
hallucinogenic fungus — see magic mushroom
any mushroom — see mushroom
Verb edit
shroom (third-person singular simple present shrooms, present participle shrooming, simple past and past participle shroomed)
- (intransitive, slang) To take magic mushrooms.
- 2012, Michael E. Monahan, College Boy, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 23:
- Not just because it was sophmoric and juvenile (which it surely was) but I was shrooming pretty heavily by now.
- 2014, Mohsin Hamid, Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York and London, Penguin UK, →ISBN:
- 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.