molotov cocktail

1. 1.

   a crude incendiary bomb made of a bottle filled with flammable liquid and fitted with a rag wick

   Synonymspetrol bombgasoline bomb

   Broaderimprovised explosive device

Questions about molotov cocktail

What does molotov cocktail mean?

molotov cocktail means "a crude incendiary bomb made of a bottle filled with flammable liquid and fitted with a rag wick".

What is another word for molotov cocktail?

Close synonyms include petrol bomb, gasoline bomb. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is molotov cocktail a common word?

molotov cocktail is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.