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Molotov|ˈmɒlətɒf|
Also Molotoff, and with lower-case initial.
The name of Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov (1890–1986), U.S.S.R. Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1939 to 1949, used attrib. in Molotov bread-basket, a container carrying high explosive and scattering incendiary bombs; Molotov cocktail, a makeshift incendiary hand-grenade, consisting of a breakable container filled with inflammable liquid, and a means of ignition; also ellipt. as Molotov.
1940Illustr. London News 6 Apr. 446/2 The ‘Molotov Breadbasket’.. appeared to consist of two types. 1940Hutchinson's Pict. Hist. War 7 Aug.–1 Oct. 91 Used with success in the Finnish war, the so-called ‘Molotov cocktails’ are considered an effective weapon against armoured divisions and have been adopted by the Home Guard. 1940Flight 26 Sept. 244/1 A Molotoff bread basket dropped some 50 incendiary bombs in a S.E. district of London. 1942J. T. Gorman Mod. Weapons of War ix. 147 Stationary tanks can be disabled by dropping grenades or Molotov cocktails through the ventilating openings. 1943T. W. Lawson Thirty Seconds over Tokyo 32 A 500-pound incendiary, something like the old Russian Molotov Breadbasket. 1951J. Carswell in A. Somerville Autobiogr. Working Man p. xiv, Feargus O'Connor was trying to popularize the ginger-beer bottle filled with inflammable mixture (a version of the Molotov Cocktail to which Englishmen seem to turn when ammunition is short). 1969Oz Apr. 5/1 Issue number three carried instructions on how to make a molotov with diagram and said where in the university to strike with same. 1970R. Johnston Black Camels vi. 90 Sulaiman was on the last bottle. Half fill it with petrol, drop in one end of the wick, plug the neck of the bottle and, hey presto, a Molotov Cocktail... Select a target, light the wick, throw the bottle. Bottle hits target, bottle smashes, petrol spills out, flame from wick ignites petrol. 1972R. K. Smith Ransom iv. 168 Thirty cars zooming out of the night loaded with molotovs. |