cooker
IPA: kˈʊkɝ
noun
- (chiefly Britain, Ireland) A device for heating food, a stove.
- (chiefly Britain, Ireland, except in compounds) An appliance or utensil for cooking food.
- One who cooks; a cook.
- A cooking apple.
- (slang, Australia) A person who makes or uses illicit drugs, especially methamphetamine or cannabis.
- (slang) The container in which recreational drugs are prepared.
- (slang, derogatory, Australia) A person who is cooked; a crazy person.
- (slang, derogatory, Australia) A conspiracy theorist, especially one who is involved in politics.
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Examples of "cooker" in Sentences
- Fat is heated in a pressure cooker.
- Better use a pressure cooker instead.
- The cockpit becomes a pressure cooker.
- A society that is not a pressure cooker.
- This is not normal behaviour for a gas cooker.
- An automated cooker for sandwiches and the like.
- The cooker lid is put on and the cooker is switched on.
- It is the forerunner of the autoclave and the domestic pressure cooker.
- Add the browned pork to the slow cooker, nestling it down into the beans.
- The pressure cookers sit on top of kerosene burners, hissing away while they sterilise the forceps that are used for extractions.