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English

1. to stir-fry rapidly (on a wok to enrich the fragrance of a dish)
2. (of accidents or problems) to happen; to occur; to take place
3. to expose a scandal; to be whistleblower (against a problem or a person)

粵語 — Cantonese

1. 喺鑊度好快咁炒起材料，增加餸菜嘅香味
2. 發生事故或者問題；出事
3. 揭露問題（篤爆大鑊）

Examples

• 葱薑爆鑊

  to stir-fry Chinese scallion and ginger ----

• 今日公司爆鑊，成個系統冧咗，今晚返唔到屋企食飯喇。

  There's been a major system outage at my company today; I can't return for dinner. ----

• 今次系統失靈，我以為過咗海就係神仙啦，點知畀隔籬部門爆鑊。

  I thought I could get away with the system failure, but the problem was exposed by the department next door.