fodder

Universal Words 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