Definition of "spread like wildfire" []

• To spread or disseminate rapidly or uncontrollably. (verb)

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• "Word of Major Botchup's arrival spread like wildfire through Omega Company."
• "The news spread like wildfire among us youths, when formerly, once in a year or two, one of these boats came up the Concord River, and was seen stealing mysteriously through the meadows and past the village."