shroomn.

1977 N.Y. Times 10 Feb. 41/2 Mr. Phillips's classmates called him ‘Shroom’—short for mushroom, which referred both to his pizza business and his physics project [sc. designing an atomic bomb].

1980 N.Y. Times Mag. 7 Sept. 130/1 Though za [i.e. pizza] with shrooms was tempting, it was too far to walk..so we vegged out, reading The N.Y. Times.

1995 News (Frederick, Maryland) 6 Jan. b3 It was a tough choice, though, between the 'shrooms and the fried mozzarella sticks.

2000 A. Bourdain Kitchen Confid. (2001) 198 Maybe I'll splurge on some fresh black trumpets and some chanterelles for a special..—and since wild boar has been a big moneymaker for me lately, maybe I'll make up on the boar what I lose on the 'shrooms.

1979 Easyriders Dec. 112/2 As fabulous as a thousand 'shroom visions.

1981 Washington Post 27 Dec. a1/5 ‘I'm a closet smoker—I like 'shrooms,’ confides a 15-year-old California girl whose favorite drug of choice, unbeknown to her parents, is hallucinogenic mushrooms, or psilocybin.

1997 D. Rushkoff in S. Champion Disco Biscuits 194 As the 'shrooms came on, all five boys realized at once they had meant to be united forever in time.

2001 R. Peffer Virgin Islands (Lonely Planet) 184 Note that mixing shrooms with alcohol is asking for trouble.

1984 N.Y. Times 4 Nov. (Connecticut Weekly section) 2/1 ‘Most of our members are “social shroomers”,’ Mr. Stoleson, a biologist, wrote in a recent issue of the [mycological] society's newsletter, Spore Print.

1994 D. Rushkoff Cyberia ii. v. 68 Mushroom experiences are, in many ways, less intensely disorienting than LSD trips... 'Shroomers feel more tangibly a part of the timeless, locationless community of other users.

2003 Guardian 29 Nov. i. 3/2 A confirmed ‘shroomer’, her fungus of choice is a gnarled truffle the colour and texture of congealed muesli known as the Philosopher's Stone—Psilocybe tampanensis to the cognoscenti.