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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
petrol bomb
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Another Epworth resident was burned alive a few days earlier when a petrol bomb was thrown into his home.
▪ The raiders burst into the dining-room and rolled hand grenades along the floor as a petrol bomb was launched outside.
Wiktionary
petrol bomb

n. A Molotov cocktail

WordNet
petrol bomb

n. a crude incendiary bomb made of a bottle filled with flammable liquid and fitted with a rag wick [syn: Molotov cocktail, gasoline bomb]

Usage examples of "petrol bomb".

A petrol bomb soared through the air, Binnie swerved violently and it exploded to one side.

The mood had changed when a youth from the other end of the street and the opposite side of the road was shot dead in the act of lighting a petrol bomb.

There was an explosion of glass on the floor above them, but they had no way of knowing whether it was caused by a rock or a petrol bomb.