Usually means: Expendable soldiers used in war.
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  1. cannon fodder: Merriam-Webster
  2. cannon fodder: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cannon fodder: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cannon fodder: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cannon fodder: Vocabulary.com
  6. cannon-fodder: Wordnik
  7. cannon fodder: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cannon fodder: Wiktionary
  9. cannon fodder: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. cannon fodder: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. cannon fodder: Dictionary.com
  12. Cannon-Fodder, Cannon Fodder (film), Cannon Fodder (series), Cannon Fodder (video game), Cannon Fodder, Cannon fodder (disambiguation), Cannon fodder: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. cannon fodder: Rhymezone
  14. cannon fodder: FreeDictionary.org
  15. cannon fodder: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. cannon fodder: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. cannon fodder: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. cannon fodder: Idioms

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  1. cannon fodder: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (cannon fodder)

noun:  Military forces considered to be expendable.
noun:  (by extension) Any group of contestants that have no hope of success.
noun:  (rare) Artillery ammunition.

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