Noun
an uncontrolled fire in a grassy area
Source: WordNetprairie-fire
It is a revolution; a revolution of the most intense character; in which belief in the justice, prudence, and wisdom of secession is blended with the keenest sense of wrong and outrage, and it can no more be checked by human effort for the time than a prairie fire by a gardener's watering pot. Judah P. Benjamin
Else von Freytag-Loringhoven is the first Dadaiste in New York and [...] the Little Review has discovered her. This movement should capture American like a prairie fire. Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
The rising cost of prescription drugs has sparked a prairie fire that is spreading across our nation. Tim Pawlenty
According to “Prairie Fire”, young people are channeled, coerced, misled, miseducated, misused in the school setting. Source: Internet
However, the event turned sour when Hispanic and Black groups accused the Weather Underground and the Prairie Fire Committee of limiting their roles in racial issues. Source: Internet
Prairie Fire urged people to never "dissociate mass struggle from revolutionary violence". Source: Internet