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mushroom

Definition

  • noun: a fungus that is shaped like an umbrella
  • noun: an enlarged complex aboveground fleshy fruiting body of a fungus (as a basidiomycete) that consists typically of a stem bearing a pileus
  • verb: to increase or develop very quickly
  • verb: to well up and spread out laterally from a central source
  • often used before another noun
  • synonyms: upstart, short-lived, ephemerial

Examples

  • The population has 'mushroomed' [='shot up'] over the past 10 years. = The town has 'mushroomed' in population over the past 10 years.

  • Interest in local history is suddenly 'mushrooming'.

  • Her hobby 'mushroomed' into a thriving business.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) to have a race car in the fucking red, that's all. - I could blow. - Oh, you ready to blow? Yeah, I'm ready to blow. I'm a mushroom cloud-laying motherfucker, motherfucker. Every time my fingers touch brain, I'm "Superfly TNT." I'm "The Guns of the Navarone." In fact, what the fuck (..)
    1994 Pulp Fiction