hardcore
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From hard + core: hard to the core; 1936 (n.); 1951 (adj.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hɑː(ɹ)dˈkɔː(ɹ)/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Adjective
hardcore (comparative more hardcore, superlative most hardcore)
- Having an extreme dedication to a certain activity.
- Synonyms: diehard, steely-eyed, tough as nails, gung ho
- He's a hardcore gamer.
- (colloquial) Particularly intense; thrillingly dangerous or erratic; desirably violent in appearance; pleasing or "cool" due to intensity or danger.
- That show was hardcore, dude.
- Resistant to change.
- Obscene or explicit.
- (pornography) Depicting penetration and abnormal sexual activity.
- (music) Faster or more intense than the regular style.
Translations
having an extreme dedication to a certain activity
particularly intense
resistant to change
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obscene or explicit
of or pertaining to pornography that depicts penetration
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faster or more intense than the regular style
Noun
hardcore (uncountable)
- 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)[1]:
- You need to excavate and remove the topsoil, line the subsoil with a geotextile, then lay and compact hardcore.
- Several music genres, including:
- Hardcore punk.
- 1981, Cary Darling, Billboard, page 10:
- Fields began recording the hardcore punk bands in 1978 when few others would.
- Gangsta rap.
- Hardcore techno.
- Jungle.
- 1994 September, Simon Reynolds, “Above The Treeline”, in The Wire[2]:
- 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.
- Outlaw country.
- Hardcore punk.
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
hardcore punk or techno music
broken bricks, stone and/or aggregate
Adverb
hardcore (not comparable)
- (colloquial) In a hardcore manner; intensely or extremely.
Polish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English hardcore.
Pronunciation
Noun
hardcore m inan
Declension
Declension of hardcore
singular | |
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nominative | hardcore |
genitive | hardcore'u |
dative | hardcore'owi |
accusative | hardcore |
instrumental | hardcore'em |
locative | hardcorze |
vocative | hardcorze |
Derived terms
adjective
noun
Further reading
- hardcore in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English hardcore.
Pronunciation
Noun
hardcore m (plural hardcores)
- 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)
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
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