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Hardcore
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- 1 Having an extreme dedication to a certain activity.
"He's a hardcore gamer."
- 2 So hard as to require extreme dedication to complete.
- 3 Particularly intense; thrillingly dangerous or erratic; desirably violent in appearance; pleasing or "cool" due to intensity or danger. colloquial
"That show was hardcore, dude."
- 4 Resistant to change.
- 5 Obscene or explicit.
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- 6 Depicting penetration and abnormal sexual activity.
- 7 Faster or more intense than the regular style.
- 1 extremely explicit wordnet
- 2 intensely loyal wordnet
- 1 In a hardcore manner; intensely or extremely. colloquial, not-comparable
- 1 Broken bricks, stone and/or other aggregate used as foundations, especially in road and path laying. uncountable
"You need to excavate and remove the topsoil, line the subsoil with a geotextile, then lay and compact hardcore."
- 2 Several music genres, including:; Hardcore punk. uncountable
"Fields began recording the hardcore punk bands in 1978 when few others would."
- 3 Several music genres, including:; Gangsta rap. uncountable
- 4 Several music genres, including:; Hardcore techno. uncountable
- 5 Several music genres, including:; Jungle. uncountable
"Always more multiracial than other post-Rave scenes, Hardcore got “blacker” as hiphop, Ragga, dub and Soul influences kicked in, and by 93 it had evolved into Jungle. By this point, Hardcore/Jungle (the terms remain interchangeable) was universally scorned by dance hipsters and banished from the media."
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- 6 Several music genres, including:; Outlaw country. uncountable
Etymology
From hard + core: hard to the core; 1936 (n.); 1951 (adj.)
From hard + core: hard to the core; 1936 (n.); 1951 (adj.)
From hard + core: hard to the core; 1936 (n.); 1951 (adj.)
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