shroom

noun

ˈshrüm 

variants or less commonly 'shroom

plural shrooms also 'shrooms

informal

: mushroom

Okay, so the healthiest way to eat your shrooms is probably not on a pizza. But fresh and dried mushrooms can give you a needed boost of vitamin B12, which may lower your risk of Alzheimer's.

—Jessica Wick

especially : a fungus (such as one of the genus Psilocybe) containing hallucinogenic alkaloids (such as psilocybin) : magic mushroom

Parents be warned: My chief takeaway from "Yearbook" was that I really needed to look into finding myself some shrooms and acid …

—Jennifer Reese

To the naysayers, it represents all that is stupefying about 'shroom-induced psychedelic noodling.

—Greg Ko

Examples of shroom in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

These bite-sized shrooms are just what your next covered dish event is missing. —Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 8 May 2025

Dice ‘shroom stems to add to fried rice, beef wellington, and bread stuffing. —Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Feb. 2025

One trip, hold the 'shrooms — a new D.C. restaurant takes diners on a psilocybin-like journey, minus the mind-altering substance. —Anna Spiegel, Axios, 10 Mar. 2025

After unwittingly tripping on shrooms during Doomcoming (Season 1), the Yellowjackets have now stumbled upon a new hallucinogenic substance in the wilderness: poisonous gas. —Michaela Zee, Variety, 22 Feb. 2025

Word History

Etymology

shortening of mushroom entry 1

First Known Use

1976, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for shroom

• blume
• boom
• broom
• doom
• flume
• fume
• gloom
• glume
• groom
• loom
• plume
• rheum