brushfire

brushfire
adjective Date: 1954 involving mobilization only on a small and local scale <
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  • Brushfire — may refer to:* Brushfire Records, a record label * Brushfire (comics), a fictional supervillain * Brushfire Fairytales, an album by Jack Johnson * Brushfire Inc., an advertising agency in Cedar Knolls, NJ * Brush fire, a wild fire …   Wikipedia

  • brushfire — (n.) 1850, from BRUSH (Cf. brush) (n.2) + FIRE (Cf. fire) (n.) …   Etymology dictionary

  • brushfire — brush·fire also brush fire (brŭshʹfīr ) n. 1. A fire in low growing, scrubby trees and brush. 2. A relatively minor crisis. adj. Minor enough to involve only small scale mobilization of counteracting resources: brushfire wars. * * * …   Universalium

  • Brushfire Fairytales — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Brushfire Fairytales Álbum de Jack Johnson Publicación 1 de Febrero de 2001 Grabación 2000 …   Wikipedia Español

  • Brushfire Fairytales — Album par Jack Johnson Sortie 1er février 2001 Enregistrement 2000 Durée 45:53 Genre …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Brushfire Records — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Brushfire Records es una compañía discográfica con sede en la Hawái (Estados Unidos) propiedad del cantante y compositor Jack Johnson. La discográfica inicialmente fue conocida como The Moonshine Conspiracy Records… …   Wikipedia Español

  • Brushfire (comics) — Superherobox| caption= comic color=background:#ff8080 character name=Brushfire real name= publisher=Marvel Comics debut= Gravity #5 (December, 2005) creators=Sean McKeever Mike Norton alliance color=background:#ffc0c0 alliances= aliases=… …   Wikipedia

  • Brushfire Records — infobox record label parent = Wholly Owned founded = 2002 distributor = Universal Republic (United States) genre = Rock, pop, soundtrack country = United States url = http://brushfirerecords.com/Brushfire Records is a Mango Tree, Hawaii based… …   Wikipedia

  • Brushfire Fairytales — Infobox Album | Name = Brushfire Fairytales Type = Album Artist = Jack Johnson Released = February 1, 2001 Recorded = 2000 Genre = Rock/Folk Length = 45:53 Label = Universal Producer = Keenan Donahue Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4|5… …   Wikipedia

  • brushfire — noun A large fire in a scrubland or prairie, as opposed to a forest fire, which happens in forests …   Wiktionary

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