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fodder
[ fod-er ]
noun
- coarse food for livestock, composed of entire plants, including leaves, stalks, and grain, of such forages as corn and sorghum.
- people considered as readily available and of little value:
cannon fodder.
- raw material:
fodder for a comedian's routine.
verb (used with object)
- to feed with or as if with fodder.
fodder
/ ˈɒə /
noun
- bulk feed for livestock, esp hay, straw, etc
- raw experience or material
fodder for the imagination
verb
- tr to supply (livestock) with fodder
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of fodder1
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Example Sentences
Those moments quickly became fodder for internet memes — and backlash.
From the “Road to” series through buddy action movies and bromances, male friendship as comic fodder has been a constant pull, one that has increasingly favored immaturity as the catharsis.
You can see how quickly this is going to turn into fraught political fodder — a Jewish district attorney filing charges against pro-Palestinian kids.
Then, just like the Confederate slave conscripts, just like the Russian cannon fodder in Bakhmut, they’ll be discarded — forgotten, broken and left to rot in the very ruins they helped create.
The bad guys are cannon fodder, though I did like the way one mobster sadly sighs at a grenade before he explodes.
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