brushfire


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.

brushfire

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