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pressure cookers

pressure cookers is the plural of pressure cooker.

Meaning of pressure cooker

Noun

pressure cooker (plural pressure cookers)

  1. A sealed cooking vessel that allows cooking in greater than atmospheric pressure and at a temperature above the boiling point of water.
  2. (figuratively) 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

Questions about pressure cookers

What is pressure cookers the plural of?
Pressure cookers is the plural of pressure cooker.

Words near pressure cookers in the dictionary

  1. pressure canner
  2. pressure canners
  3. pressure cooker
  4. pressure cooker bomb
  5. pressure cooker bombs
  6. pressure cookers
  7. pressure cuff
  8. pressure cuffs
  9. pressure gauge
  10. pressure gauges
  11. pressure gradient

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