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shroom

  • /ʃɹuːm/

Rhymes with -uːm

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Clipping of mushroom.

noun shrooms · 'shroom

  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.
  2. informal, rare Any mushroom. These succulent little shrooms from pop culture scholar Lena Lencek will drive everyone back for seconds.

verb shrooms · shrooming · shroomed · 'shroom

  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.

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@misc{shroom_2026,
  title = {shroom},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/shroom},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}