Slang a bottle filled with gasoline, etc. and wrapped in a saturated rag or plugged with a wick, then ignited and hurled as a grenade
Origin:
after V(yacheslav) M(ikhailovich) Molotov
See Molotov cocktail in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
A makeshift bomb made of a breakable container filled with flammable liquid and provided with a usually rag wick that is lighted just before being hurled.