1. Coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop
   "The farmer stored hay as winter fodder for the cattle"
    
2. People or material to be used for a specific purpose
   "The tabloids used celebrity scandals as fodder for their headlines"
    
3. Soldiers who are regarded as expendable in the face of artillery fire
   "The general callously referred to the new recruits as cannon fodder";
   - cannon fodder, fresh fish

1. Give fodder (to domesticated animals)
   "The farmer foddered the cattle before winter"

Derived forms: foddering, foddered, fodders

Type of: feed, feedstuff, give, pongo [Brit, informal], provender, soldier

Encyclopedia: Fodder