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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A mushroom, especially one taken as a psychedelic drug.

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  • noun informal, rare A mushroom.
  • noun slang, usually in plural A magic mushroom: a hallucinogenic fungus.
  • verb intransitive, slang To take magic mushrooms.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Short for mushroom.]

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Shortened from mushroom.

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