How to pronounce “pressure cooker”

Meaning

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

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