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pressure cooker en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

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.
   • Humanity lives in a pressure cooker of stress because of the ruthless way in which we compete, because of our lack of respect for the international rules of commerce, because of social conflicts, because of the devastation to the environment. 2011, Augusto Cury, The Dreamseller: The Calling, page 173:
   • 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:
   • 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:
   • And in the last few months, the city’s average apartment rent surpassed New York City’s to be the nation’s most expensive, reaching $3,827 a month, according to the real estate data firm CoStar. “It’s a pressure cooker, and it’s heated up really fast,” said Nigel Hughes, a senior researcher at CoStar. 2026 June 29, Emmy Martin, “In San Francisco, Even $180,000 Tech Salaries Are No Longer Enough”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

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Translations (51)

ja 圧力鍋 (cooking vessel) · yue 壓力煲 /压力煲 (cooking vessel) · es olla a presión (cooking vessel) · cmn 高壓鍋 /高压锅 (cooking vessel) · fi painekattila (cooking vessel) · nn trykk-kokar (cooking vessel) · ru скорова́рка (cooking vessel) · cy sosban frys (cooking vessel) · fr autocuiseur (cooking vessel) · cy sosban bwysedd (cooking vessel) · acw قدر ضغط (cooking vessel) · de Schnellkochtopf (cooking vessel) · fr marmite à pression (cooking vessel) · es marmita (cooking vessel) · da trykkoger (cooking vessel) · pl szybkowar (cooking vessel) · el χύτρα ταχύτητας (cooking vessel) · ko 압력솥 (cooking vessel) · sh pretis lònac (cooking vessel) · cs tlakový hrnec (cooking vessel) · vi nồi áp suất (cooking vessel) · id presto (cooking vessel) · pt panela de pressão (cooking vessel) · de Dampfkochtopf (cooking vessel) · it pentola a pressione (cooking vessel) · cs Papinův hrnec (cooking vessel) · yi דרוקטאָפּ (cooking vessel) · cmn 壓力鍋 /压力锅 (cooking vessel) · ga brúbhruthaire (cooking vessel) · nb trykkoker (cooking vessel) · gl ola de presión (cooking vessel) · fi painekeitin (cooking vessel) · et kiirkeedupott (cooking vessel) · nl snelkookpan (cooking vessel) · nn trykkokar (cooking vessel) · de Dampfdrucktopf (cooking vessel) · hu kukta (cooking vessel) · nb trykk-koker (cooking vessel) · es olla express (cooking vessel) · id panci tekan (cooking vessel) · nl hogedrukpan (cooking vessel) · es olla de presión (cooking vessel) · tr düdüklü tencere (cooking vessel) · fr cocotte-minute (cooking vessel) · de Drucktopf (cooking vessel) · fa زودپز (cooking vessel) · sv tryckkokare (cooking vessel) · cs papiňák (cooking vessel) · ca olla de pressió (cooking vessel) · sh претис ло̀нац (cooking vessel) · eo premmarmito (cooking vessel)