pressure cooker

noun

Definitions

  1. A sealed cooking vessel that allows cooking in greater than atmospheric pressure and at a…

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

  2. 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.
    • Wall Street hopes that economic deprivation will turn up the pressure cooker on internal relations.

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