Definition of "firestarter" [firestarter]

• One who starts fires (noun)
• A tool used to start a fire. (noun)

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• "Another good idea for a firestarter is to carefully melt wax in a tin can."
• "In fact, for some of the activities, the attorney took the lead - for example, she had been put on administrative leave and then terminated from the school district where she had taught because of the attorney's calls to the district alleging that she had been a "firestarter," burning down a school on the Oneida reservation when she was a teen."
• "Or it might just be a 'firestarter' and have nothing to do with politics at all."