hardcore

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See also: hard-core and Hardcore

English

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Alternative forms

Etymology

hard +‎ core: hard to the core; 1936 (n.); 1951 (adj.)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hɑː(ɹ)dˈkɔː(ɹ)/
  • Audio (AU)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)

Adjective

hardcore (comparative more hardcore, superlative most hardcore)

  1. Having an extreme dedication to a certain activity.
    Synonyms: diehard, steely-eyed, tough as nails, gung ho
    He's a hardcore gamer.
  2. (colloquial) Particularly intense; thrillingly dangerous or erratic; desirably violent in appearance; pleasing or "cool" due to intensity or danger.
    That show was hardcore, dude.
  3. Resistant to change.
  4. Obscene or explicit.
  5. (pornography) Depicting penetration and abnormal sexual activity.
  6. (music) Faster or more intense than the regular style.

Translations

Noun

hardcore (uncountable)

  1. Broken bricks, stone and/or other aggregate used as foundations, especially in road and path laying.
    • 2014 August 24, Jeff Howell, “Home improvements: gravel paths and cutting heating bills [print version: Cold comfort in technology, 23 August 2014, p. P5]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Property)‎:
      You need to excavate and remove the topsoil, line the subsoil with a geotextile, then lay and compact hardcore.
  2. Several music genres, including:
    1. Hardcore punk.
      • 1981, Cary Darling, Billboard, page 10:
        Fields began recording the hardcore punk bands in 1978 when few others would.
    2. Gangsta rap.
    3. Hardcore techno.
    4. Jungle.
      • 1994 September, Simon Reynolds, “Above The Treeline”, in The Wire‎:
        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.
    5. Outlaw country.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → German: Hardcore
  • Russian: хардко́р m (xardkór)

Translations

Adverb

hardcore (not comparable)

  1. (colloquial) In a hardcore manner; intensely or extremely.

Polish

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Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English hardcore.

Pronunciation

Noun

hardcore m inan

  1. (slang) something hardcore (particularly intense)
  2. (music) hardcore (hardcore punk or techno music)

Declension

Declension of hardcore
singular
nominative hardcore
genitive hardcore'u
dative hardcore'owi
accusative hardcore
instrumental hardcore'em
locative hardcorze
vocative hardcorze

Derived terms

adjective
noun

Further reading

Spanish

Pronunciation

Noun

hardcore m (plural hardcores)

  1. hardcore
    quiere ser hardcore y su mamá no lo deja
    he wants to be hardcore and his mother doesn't let him

Adjective

hardcore (invariable)

  1. hardcore
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