brush fire

brush·fire

also brush fire B0516100 (brŭsh′fīr′)n.1. A fire in low-growing, scrubby trees and brush.2. A relatively minor crisis.adj. Minor enough to involve only small-scale mobilization of counteracting resources: brushfire wars.

brush fire

n1. a fire in bushes and scrub2. (Sociology) a minor local war

brush′ fire`

n. a fire in an area of bushes, shrubs, or brush, as distinct from a forest fire. [1770–80, Amer.]

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brush fire - an uncontrolled fire that consumes brush and shrubs and bushesfire - the event of something burning (often destructive); "they lost everything in the fire"

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