Petrol-bomb
noun, British.
1.
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noun
1.
a home-made incendiary device, consisting of a bottle filled with petrol and stoppered with a wick, that is thrown by hand; Molotov cocktail
verb
2.
(transitive) to attack with petrol bombs
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