shroom

noun

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.”

   “Shrooms—and I don’t mean the psychedelic kind—are one of those vegetables that you either love or hate.”

   “To determine how much live protein may be occupying a shroom, try this test: […].”

verb

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.”

   “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.”