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1. plural normallyslangA 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.

   2009, Sean Williams, Jesus and the Magic Mushroom, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 33

2. informalrareAny mushroom.

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

   2004, Jim Sterba, Frankie’s Place: A Love Story, Grove Press, →ISBN, page 172

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   These succulent little shrooms from pop culture scholar Lena Lencek will drive everyone back for seconds.

   2000, Karen Brooks et al., Dude Food: Recipes for the Modern Guy, Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 83

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

   2003, Dave Hirschkop, Crazy from the heat: Dave’s insanity cookbook, Ten Speed Press, →ISBN, page 72

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1. intransitiveslangTo take magic mushrooms.

   Not just because it was sophmoric^([sic]) and juvenile (which it surely was) but I was shrooming pretty heavily by now.

   2012, Michael E. Monahan, College Boy, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 23

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   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.

   2014, Mohsin Hamid, Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York and London, Penguin UK, →ISBN