jail fodder
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.34 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person with criminal tendencies who is considered to be expendable, worth nothing more than to occupy a jail.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Philos grew redly truculent. ‘Look,’ he said, ‘I don’t need the advice of a lump of Jewish jailfodder—’"
- "Between 1718 and 1775, the empire transported about fifty thousand felons, more than half of all English emigrants to America during that period. The transported were overwhelmingly young, unmarried men with little or no economic skill: the cannon fodder of war and the jail fodder of peace."
- "2016, Vickie Roach, quoted in Elle Hunt, “Safe space,” The Guardian, 24 November, 2016, The history of Australia since colonisation has been telling us that we’re stupid, dumb, we’re drunks, we’re just jail fodder, we’re all criminals, we’re dirty, we can’t look after our kids, we all sniff petrol, now we do ice."