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What does spread like wildfire mean?

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  1. (intransitive, simile) To spread or disseminate rapidly or uncontrollably.
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A coffee shop once had its online ad spread like wildfire by offering one free new beverage on a given day.
Known as self-propagation, this is how viruses can spread like wildfire across the Internet and corporate networks.
And to add to the bad times that Omar was going through a rumour had spread like wildfire that he was boycotting national team games.
News about the birth and survival of these quintuplets spread like wildfire and they became stars overnight.
One of the major turning points in history was the invention of the printing press, which allowed books and knowledge to spread like wildfire.
In the meantime, news of the famous visitor has evidently spread like wildfire.

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