Usually means: Cooks food quickly using steam.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word pressure cooker:

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  1. pressure cooker: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pressure cooker: Merriam-Webster
  3. pressure cooker: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pressure cooker: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pressure cooker: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pressure cooker: Vocabulary.com
  7. pressure-cooker, pressure cooker: Wordnik
  8. pressure cooker: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pressure-cooker, pressure cooker: Wiktionary
  10. pressure cooker: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. pressure cooker: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. pressure-cooker, pressure cooker: Dictionary.com
  13. Pressure Cooker (album), Pressure Cooker (band), Pressure Cooker (film), Pressure Cooker (game show), Pressure Cooker (video game), Pressure cooker (disambiguation), Pressure cooker, The Pressure Cooker: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. pressure cooker: Rhymezone
  15. pressure cooker: FreeDictionary.org
  16. pressure cooker: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. pressure cooker: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pressure cooker: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pressure cooker: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pressure cooker)

noun:  (cooking) A sealed cooking vessel that allows cooking in greater than atmospheric pressure and at a temperature above the boiling point of water.
noun:  (figurative) A stressful situation that is liable to erupt.

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