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

Peach heads for the Galaxy Gateway with Toad (Keegan-Michael Key), while Mario, Luigi and their new dino pal Yoshi (Donald Glover) hold things down with the ‘shrooms … for a while anyway. —Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 4 Apr. 2026

Peach heads for the Galaxy Gateway with Toad (Keegan-Michael Key), while Mario, Luigi and their new dino pal Yoshi (Donald Glover) hold things down with the ‘shrooms — for a while anyway. —Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2026

Our choice today is super shroom. —Ed Silverman, STAT, 24 Mar. 2026

Johnson’s shrooms experiment comes at a time when researchers are building a case that psychedelics can help ease mental health conditions. —Mattha Busby, Wired News, 2 Dec. 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