WordNet
n. a crude incendiary bomb made of a bottle filled with flammable liquid and fitted with a rag wick [syn: Molotov cocktail, petrol bomb]
Usage examples of "gasoline bomb".
She had been using God's name because it was the strongest curse and the mightiest invocation she could use as a child, and the society in which she found herself reminded her of the one she had wished for when yet another driveby shooting or attack had stove in the windows of a neighbor's house, when yet another gasoline bomb had razed a church.
The police would be frantic, of course, looking for the gasoline bomb, which they believed would go off at any moment.
He had lost his AK-47 when he was hit by the gasoline bomb, and that he regretted, for a true soldier never abandons his weapon.
Tense seconds passed for the boy as he prepared to drop a gasoline bomb in their wake before the truck finally pulled away from the tiring creatures.
Graves scans the morning paper over his grapefruit: MAN BURNED BY GASOLINE BOMB.
So he'd make a stop first and leave the gasoline bomb in a dorm at Northern California University.
There's guys that'll run by your cell and throw a gasoline bomb in on you.
Actually, we can't have a third, because we had it in 1974 when a man named Samuel Byck, armed with a handgun and a gasoline bomb, shot his way onto a Delta Airlines jet at the Baltimore airport, intending to crash the plane into the White House (sound familiar?