Usually means: Rapidly expand or increase uncontrollably.
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  1. spread like wildfire: Merriam-Webster
  2. spread like wildfire: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. spread like wildfire: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. spread like wildfire: Wiktionary

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  1. spread like wildfire: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (spread like wildfire)

verb:  (intransitive, simile) To spread or disseminate rapidly or uncontrollably.

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