firebomb

noun

1. A weapon that causes fire; an incendiary weapon.

   “A Molotov cocktail is a simple firebomb.”

   “The firebombs were small, and burst into flames when they hit the ground.”

   “As many as 100,000 Japanese people were killed and another million injured, most of them civilians, when more than 300 American B-29 bombers dropped 1,500 tons of firebombs on the Japanese capital that night.”

verb

1. (transitive)To attack with a firebomb.

   “The rioters firebombed the parked car.”

   “A GOP office in Hillsborough, North Carolina, was firebombed over the weekend, with a swastika and the words “Nazi Republicans leave town or else” spray painted on an adjacent building, according to local officials.”

   “The next week when they firebombed the Satin Room, one of Chink Montagueʼs after-hours joints, Carney assumed the mobsters were embroiled in another war.”

   “On Tuesday, a masked man used molotov cocktails to firebomb a Tesla dealership in Las Vegas before firing rounds into the burning vehicles.”