noun [U]
1 food for horses and farm animals
2 (disapproving) (often after a noun) people or things that are considered to have only one use:
Without education, these children will end up as factory fodder (= only able to work in a factory). * This story will be more fodder for the gossip columnists. * He regarded lists of rules, regulations and procedures as dustbin fodder (= only fit to be thrown away).
seealsoCANNONFODDER
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for fodder is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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