English

Alternative forms

• Molotoff cocktail
• molotov cocktail
• Molotov’s cocktail

Noun

Molotov cocktail ‎(plural Molotov cocktails)

1. A crude, simple incendiary bomb made from a glass bottle, either filled with a flammable liquid such as petroleum and supplied with a rag for a fuse that is lit just before being hurled, or filled with such a mix of flammable liquids that it ignites itself when it is smashed and its contents are exposed to air.

Quotations

• For usage examples of this term, see Citations:Molotov cocktail.

Synonyms

• (bomb): mollie (informal), petrol bomb
• Molotov, molotov

Related terms

• Molotov breadbasket

Translations

References

D. L. Gold (1996), “Etymology and Etiology in the Study of Proper Nouns, Eponymous Lexemes, and Possibly Eponymous Lexemes”, in Onomastica: pismo poświęcone nazewnictwu geograficznemu i osobowemu oraz innym nazwom własnym, v 41, pp 109–38.

English

Noun

molotov cocktail ‎(plural molotov cocktails)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Molotov cocktail