Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pressure cooker \Pressure cooker\
(Cookery) a pot with a lid which may be tightly bound to the bottom part, forming a vessel which can withstand some gas pressure from within. It is used to heat foods in water or steam to a temperature somewhat above the boiling point of water, allowing the cooking process to be accomplished more quickly than otherwise.
Fig., a situation involving intense psychological pressure due to multiple urgent demands, as in certain job situations.
Wiktionary
n. (context cookware English) A sealed cook vessel that allows cooking in greater than atmospheric pressure and at a temperature above the boiling point of water.
WordNet
n. autoclave for cooking at temperatures above the boiling point of water
Wikipedia
Pressure Cooker is a game show about cooking and food in general. It was hosted by Chris Durham. It aired on the Food Network in 1998.
Three contestants compete, each standing behind a blue, yellow, or pink mini-refrigerator, hoping to earn enough meal tickets to advance to Round 2, the Taste-Off Round, where the winner goes on to try to the grand prize.
Pressure Cooker is a nine piece reggae/ ska/ rocksteady band from Boston. The group writes, records, and performs original songs in the styles of 1960s and 1970s Jamaican music. The group formed in 1997.
Pressure Cooker has released seven full-length CDs. Fronted by lead singer Craig Akira Fujita and backed by a core of Boston-area musicians, the band has played to audiences at clubs and festivals spanning from New England to Chicago. Over the years, Pressure Cooker has opened locally for notable artists of roots reggae music including Toots & the Maytals, Burning Spear, Gregory Isaacs, The Wailers, Prince Buster, Derrick Morgan, The Skatalites, Culture, Laurel Aitken, Eek-A-Mouse, Julian Marley, and Sister Carol.
Their newest recording, Wherever You Go, was released in December 2012 and funded through Kickstarter.
A pressure cooker is a sealed vessel used for pressure cooking. It may also refer to:
Pressure Cooker is an Atari 2600 video game released by Activision in 1983. The player is a short-order cook at a hamburger stand who must assemble and package hamburgers to order without letting ingredients or hamburgers fall to the floor.
Pressure Cooker is a 2008 documentary film directed by Mark Becker and Jennifer Grausman.
Usage examples of "pressure cooker".
The town was like a pressure cooker, with the children wanting to go out and the parents screaming every time they went near the door.
She didn't know what else to think, after what had happened this afternoon when she'd been making spaghetti sauce in the pressure cooker.
But you've got that old-fashioned stove that still works in there, and a perfectly good pressure cooker, and that's what I learned at my mother's knee.
He featured catfish, Kentucky style chicken cooked in a very expensive 'pressure cooker,' and beef grilled to order, on top of a full menu.
By the time the water was near boiling point he captured it in the rebuilt pressure cooker, added some tea leaves and let it brew.
We both must question if what we feel is genuine or part of the pressure cooker we're living in.