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jailfodder

jailfodder is the alternative form of jail fodder.

Meaning of jail fodder

Noun

jail fodder (uncountable)

  1. A person with criminal tendencies who is considered to be expendable, worth nothing more than to occupy a jail.
    • Philos grew redly truculent. ‘Look,’ he said, ‘I don’t need the advice of a lump of Jewish jailfodder—’1985, Anthony Burgess, chapter 4, in The Kingdom of the Wicked, London: Hutchinson

Questions about jailfodder

What is jailfodder the alternative form of?
Jailfodder is the alternative form of jail fodder.

Words near jailfodder in the dictionary

  1. jaileresses
  2. jailering
  3. jailers
  4. jailership
  5. jailerships
  6. jailfodder
  7. jailful
  8. jailfuls
  9. jailhouse
  10. jailhouse lawyer
  11. jailhouse lawyers

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