petrol bomb
noun/ˈpetrəl bɒm/
/ˈpetrəl bɑːm/
(British English) (also Molotov cocktail British and North American English)
- a simple bomb that consists of a bottle filled with petrol and a piece of cloth in the end that is made to burn just before the bomb is thrownTopics War and conflictc2
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