pressure cooker
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.33 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A sealed cooking vessel that allows cooking in greater than atmospheric pressure and at a temperature above the boiling point of water.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."