0 a fire burning in the bush (= a wild area of land) that is difficult to control and sometimes spreads quickly:
Today has been horrifically hot, there's a bushfire very close and the whole city smells of burning.
A tourist appeared in court accused of starting a bush fire with a cigarette.
Since his confession, the scandal has spread like a bushfire through the party.
There is a growing list of banks burnt out by the wild bushfire of the global liquidity crisis.
