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cannon fodder 

a semi-offensive term for an NHL player traded to another club less than 48 hours prior to the March 1 NHL Trade Deadline.
If you want to make a smooth transition to your new club, please ask your old team not to make you cannon fodder
cannon fodder by Uncle Dimma September 16, 2016

Cannon Fodder

Incorrect, inflammatory word-vomit from people with no facts and way too much audacity.

Basically the verbal equivalent of a toddler with a match and a podcast, showing up just to pour gas on a fire.
Check out the clueless dipshit cannon fodder that lit the fuse for a 200-comment shitstorm where everyone's swinging at shadows over a fart in the wind.
Cannon Fodder by Namistehere April 20, 2026

cannon-fodder complex 

Psychological characteristic of a person who is too afraid to play any fast-paced sport that involves a ball, such as football, soccer, baseball, or basketball because he or she is too afraid of getting injured during rough playing, and/or because he/she is too afraid of the ball when it's thrown or kicked at him/her at high velocity.

Called a "cannon-fodder complex" because the person playing the sport feels like a cheap under-protected soldier being sent first against the enemy while having to avoid deadly enemy fire). So in fact, he or she thinks that it's too dangerous to catch, stop, or volley the ball while it's travelling at high velocity.
1.Having a cannon-fodder complex is one of the main reasons I hate playing sports.

2.Shit, we lost the game all because of some wussy in our team who turned out to have a cannon-fodder complex!

3.People with severe cases of cannon-fodder complexes are one of the main reasons that dodgeball was outlawed in schools.

Cannon Fodder, canUnon fodUder, cannoN foddeR 

Cannon Fodder, canUnon fodUder, cannoN foddeR
Cannon Fodder, canUnon fodUder, cannoN foddeR

corporate cannon fodder 

This is similar to its' military definition except applied to the corporate world and its' culture. A low ranking employee without many skills. One who is considered expendable because he/she can easily be replaced.
Hourly workers in this company are just corporate cannon fodder. They just keep us around until we can be replaced by a computer program.

canon fodder 

(adj.) Expendable.


Can also be applied to culture.