pressure cooker
pressure cooker noun: a sealed cooking vessel that allows cooking in greater than atmospheric pressure and at a temperature above the boiling point of water.
Noun
pressure cooker (plural pressure cookers)
- A sealed cooking vessel that allows cooking in greater than atmospheric pressure and at a temperature above the boiling point of water.
- A stressful situation that is liable to erupt.
- Look, I had a pressure cooker of a job along with more responsibility that any one person should have. I had an office of twenty-five people under me all needing help like little birds in a nest.2006, J. P. Cardone, Tales Under a Full Moon, page 208
- Wall Street hopes that economic deprivation will turn up the pressure cooker on internal relations.2007 July 19, Leslie Feinberg, “Cuba education about same-sex love reached every home”, in Workers World
pressure cooker meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Indonesian and Persian
pressure cooker in Tamil
- அழுத்தப் பல்லவி, அழுப்பல்லவி, அழுத்தேனம்
pressure cooker in Urdu
- pressure cooker
- ککر kukar
pressure cooker in Indonesian
- cooking vessel
- presto, panci tekan
pressure cooker in Persian
- cooking vessel
- زودپز zudpaz
More languagesFewer languages
- pressure cooker in Vietnamese
- nồi áp suất
Forms of pressure cooker
| plural | pressure cookers |
|---|---|
| alternative form | pressure-cooker |
Questions about pressure cooker
- What does pressure cooker mean?
- Pressure cooker means a sealed cooking vessel that allows cooking in greater than atmospheric pressure and at a temperature above the boiling point of water.
- What is pressure cooker in Tamil?
- Pressure cooker in Tamil is அழுத்தப் பல்லவி, அழுப்பல்லவி, அழுத்தேனம். See Pressure cooker meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is pressure cooker?
- Pressure cooker is a noun.
- What is the plural of pressure cooker?
- The plural of pressure cooker is pressure cookers.
Words near pressure cooker in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: pressure cooker (page history and authors); pressure cooker (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ککر (Urdu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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