hardcoren.adj.

Brit.

/ˈhɑːdkɔː/, U.S.

/ˈhɑrdˌkɔr/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: hard adj., core n.¹

Etymology: < hard adj. + core n.¹

A. n.

1. Building. Broken bricks, rubble, or similar solid material used as a filling or foundation.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > types of material generally > [noun] > building-material > for foundations of buildings or roads

hardcore1842

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > for making roads

rigging stone1599

metal1782

road metal1805

roadstone1805

metalling1819

road metalling1826

hardcore1842

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > building stone > small or undressed stones for filling in

pinning1534

rubble1542

rubble work1675

rubble stone1833

hearting1837

spalled rubble1839

hardcore1842

scruff-stone1869

moellon1875

1842 Times 14 May 2/2 (advt.) Contract for Gravel, Hard Core or Pickings, and Chalk.

1880 Macmillan's Mag. 41 252 Rough bits of all kinds of material, which goes by the name of ‘Hard Core’.

1920 F. Wood Mod. Road Constr. (ed. 2) 257 Hardcore is to be spread over the carriageway to a depth of 12 inches when consolidated by rolling.

1959 Princ. Forced Circulation in Hot Water Heating Syst. (1960) 39 Floors in contact with earth, hardcore etc.

2010 T. Bryan Constr. Technol. (ed. 2) 200 The ground-support slab..will be laid on a layer of compacted fill or hardcore.

2. In form hard core.

a. A central or fundamental element which cannot be removed or reduced; an intractable person, group, or thing.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > [noun] > something unchanging

leopard1382

the law of the Medes and Persiansc1384

constant1832

hardcore1916

invariance1939

invariant1939

facticity1964

society > authority > lack of subjection > [noun] > insubordinate person > intractable person

repugnant1625

Tartar1669

ugly customer1811

recalcitrant1825

non-compliant1854

intractable1883

non-cooperator1896

hardcore1916

badman1954

badass1956

banduluc1977

the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [noun] > obstinate or stubborn person > stubborn minority

hardcore1916

the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > constituent part or component > essential

part or (also nor) parcel1451

part and parcel1463

hardcore1916

1916 Burlington Mag. Apr. 39/1 However good socialists we may be, we all have, I believe, a hard core of anarchism within us which claims the gratifications of the individual spirit as one of the supreme goods of life.

1936 Nature 12 Sept. 441/2 Possibly 200,000 would be practically unemployable on any ordinary basis—the ‘hard core’ as it is called.

1968 Times 2 Sept. 2/7 Heathrow airport..could, perhaps, be called the hard core of Britain's noise problem.

2011 Independent 15 Dec. 2/2 The criminality and anti-social behaviour committed by a hard core of problem families.

b. The most active, committed, or doctrinaire members of a group or movement.

ΚΠ

1922 Fortn. Rev. 1 Apr. 575 The Die-Hards..are the hard core of the Unionist Party, the remnant of the old Conservatives, the rump of the still older Tories.

1955 Treatm. Brit. P.O.W.'s in Korea (H.M.S.O.) 25 This camp..was the home of the hard core of Other Rank reactionaries—men who had distinguished themselves by their heroic resistance to all Chinese brutality.

1990 Rolling Stone 5 Apr. 51/2 He liked Jane's Addiction, metal music and jazz, too..and was never a member of the Deadhead hard core.

2012 Church Times 21 Dec. 36/2 I have a moment's sober realisation that our hard core is getting smaller, death having undone two of my most faithful eight o'clockers in the past year.

3. Pornography of a particularly explicit or extreme kind. Cf. sense B. 2.

ΚΠ

1971–2 Sight & Sound Winter 28/2 Film-makers are obliged to make their films better..rather than dirtier. This seemed true even of the American hard-core.

1989 L. Williams Hard Core iv. 110 Deep Throat is typical of the new wave of post-1972 narrative hard core.

2005 P. Paul Pornified (2006) 75 His first peek at hardcore was when a friend showed Tyler his older brother's online cache.

4. Originally North American. Any of various forms of popular music (often a variety of an established genre) regarded as particularly uncompromising, extreme, aggressive, or experimental; (in early use chiefly) a particularly fast and harsh form of punk.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > pop music > [noun] > other pop music

a cappella1905

soundclash1925

marabi1933

doo-wop1958

filk1959

folk-rock1963

Liverpool sound1963

Mersey beat1963

Mersey sound1963

surf music1963

malombo1964

mbaqanga1964

easy listening1965

disco music1966

Motown1966

boogaloo1967

power pop1967

psychedelia1967

yé-yé1967

agitpop1968

bubblegum1968

Tamla Motown1968

Tex-Mex1968

downtempo1969

taarab1969

thrash1969

world music1969

funk1970

MOR1970

tropicalism1970

Afrobeat1971

electro-pop1971

post-rock1971

techno-pop1971

Tropicalia1971

tropicalismo1971

disco1972

Krautrock1972

schlager1973

Afropop1974

punk funk1974

disco funk1975

Europop1976

mgqashiyo1976

P-funk1976

funkadelia1977

karaoke music1977

alternative music1978

hardcore1978

psychobilly1978

punkabilly1978

R&B1978

cowpunk1979

dangdut1979

hip-hop1979

Northern Soul1979

rap1979

rapping1979

jit1980

trance1980

benga1981

New Romanticism1981

post-punk1981

rap music1981

scratch1982

scratch-music1982

synth-pop1982

electro1983

garage1983

Latin1983

Philly1983

New Age1984

New Age music1985

ambient1986

Britpop1986

gangster rap1986

house1986

house music1986

mbalax1986

rai1986

trot1986

zouk1986

bhangra1987

garage1987

hip-house1987

new school1987

old school1987

thrashcore1987

acid1988

acid house1988

acid jazz1988

ambience1988

Cantopop1988

dance1988

deep house1988

industrial1988

swingbeat1988

techno1988

dream pop1989

gangsta rap1989

multiculti1989

new jack swing1989

noise-pop1989

rave1989

Tejano1989

breakbeat1990

chill-out music1990

indie1990

new jack1990

new jill swing1990

noisecore1990

baggy1991

drum and bass1991

gangsta1991

handbag house1991

hip-pop1991

loungecore1991

psychedelic trance1991

shoegazing1991

slowcore1991

techno-house1991

gabba1992

jungle1992

sadcore1992

UK garage1992

darkcore1993

dark side1993

electronica1993

G-funk1993

sampladelia1994

trip hop1994

break1996

psy-trance1996

nu skool1997

folktronica1999

dubstep2002

Bongo Flava2003

grime2003

Bongo2004

singeli2015

1978 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 5 Apr. (Fanfare section) 11/3 Stewart removes the Bowie disc and replaces it with some Jamaican hard-core.

1984 Washington Post 12 Nov. c6/4 Obscured by a cascade of stage-diving fans, Marginal Man and Government Issue played traditional D.C. hard-core featuring adolescent social comment atop a breathtakingly fast guitar attack.

2013 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 25 Aug. (Arts & Leisure section) 16/6 What is the point..with all these new examples of hardcore, grindcore, D-beat, power-violence, black metal?

B. adj.

a. Designating an extreme or pronounced example of something; uncompromising; persistent, entrenched. Also: radical, doctrinaire.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > [adjective]

fasteOE

inunvariable1535

uniform1559

changeless1575

unvariant1582

wasteless1589

unchanging1595

inherent1601

unselfchanging1605

shiftless1606

ne'er-changinga1616

waxlessa1618

immutable1621

equal1626

irreducible1633

indiminishable1641

imprevaricable1644

Median1649

undiminishable1653

assiduous1661

unvarying1690

unfluctuating1723

unrelapsing1740

stable1742

unarbitrary1793

untransferable1794

unaltering1813

constant1817

all-or-nothing1853

all-or-none1864

reducelessc1864

unaugmentable1868

invariant1874

inadaptive1886

plateaued1899

steady state1909

hardcore1951

homoeostatic1955

monochromatic1959

the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > extreme opinion, dogmatism > [adjective]

high?1535

Arctic1593

magistral1596

forward1608

confident1611

magisterial1635

pragmatic1638

high-flown1640

affirmative1650

thetical1653

positive1658

pragmatical1660

dogmatical1662

dogmatic1681

unargumentative1722

ultra1820

doctrinaire1834

cocksure1842

doctrinary1846

unevidential1853

Doctrinarian1878

pontificating1922

fundamentalist1928

hardcore1951

the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [adjective] > inflexible

ironOE

stour1303

strange1338

unmovablea1382

inflexible1398

stoutc1410

unpliablea1425

intreatable1509

stiff1526

stiff-necked1526

unpliant1547

stout-hearted1552

inexorable1553

obstinate1559

strait-laced1560

impersuasible1576

unflexiblea1586

hard-edged1589

adamantive1594

unyielding1594

adder-deaf1597

steeled1600

irrefragable1601

rigid1606

unpersuadable1607

imployable1613

unswayablea1616

uncompellable1623

inflexive?1624

over-rigid1632

unlimbera1639

seta1640

incomplying1640

uncomplying1643

stiff-girt1659

impersuadable1680

unbendinga1688

impracticable1713

unblendable1716

stiff-rumped1728

unconvinciblea1747

uncompounding1782

unplastic1787

unbending1796

adamant1816

uneasy1819

uncompromising1828

cast iron1829

hard-hitting1831

rigoristic1844

ramrod1850

pincé1858

anchylosed1860

unbendable1884

tape-bound1900

tape-tied1900

hard line1903

tough1905

absolutist1907

hard-arsed1942

go-for-broke1946

hardcore1951

hard-arse1966

hard-ass1967

hardball1974

1951 J. Cornish Provincials 24 The party was acknowledged even by the hard-core cynics to be a credit to the Dunseith brothers.

1965 Harper's Feb. 69/2 We were scouting a hard-core Vietcong battalion.

1975 Citizen (Prince George, Brit. Columbia) 20 May 3 Most juvenile offenders would still be referred to the human resources department's community programs but a few hardcore cases will remain under the jurisdiction of his department even after sentencing.

2007 J. Ferris And then we came to End i. iii. 101 Marcia spoke with a hardcore South Side accent and wore the accompanying tall hair with bangs.

b. Esp. of a supporter: highly committed or dedicated.

ΚΠ

1951 Planning 26 Feb. 178 A team's victories or defeats..have a psychological effect on the ‘hard core’ supporters which is reflected in their standard of work during the week.

1970 Compar. Politics Jan. 252 The FRAP finds its hardcore supporters among certain sectors of the Chilean proletariat such as the traditionally radical miners.

1996 Entertainm. Weekly 10 May 39/3 Hardcore fans of the low-rated weepfest Sisters will not be disappointed by its finale.

2014 E. Adams Fund. Game Design 97 The hardcore gamer actively seeks gaming-related information through the Internet.

2. Designating pornography of a very explicit kind; of or relating to such pornography.

ΚΠ

1957 J. L. Rankin et al. Brief for U.S. filed in U.S. Supreme Court, Samuel Roth v. U.S. 17 Apr. 7 Over 90 percent of such convictions under the statute are for the mailing of material which is ‘hard-core’ pornography—commercially produced booklets and photographs dealing with every form of sexual perversion and activity known.

1975 P. Kronhausen & E. Kronhausen Sex People vii. 74 The obligatory ‘cum shots’ in hard-core porn movies.

2007 Time Out N.Y. 18 Jan. 86/2 This recurring standup and variety show also features..the ‘porno corner’ in which Hawley analyzes hardcore scenes.

3. Designating a particularly uncompromising, extreme, aggressive, or experimental version of any of various types of popular music (originally jazz).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > pop music > [adjective] > qualities of pop

metal?1518

anthemic1890

Afro-Latin-American1900

sun-kissed1907

heavy1937

Latin American1937

Memphis1938

sun-drenched1943

indie1945

rockish1955

hardcore1957

doo-wop1958

middle of the road1959

Latin1962

straight-ahead1964

easy listening1965

Motown1965

funky1967

post-rock1967

rocky1967

rock-out1968

funkadelic1969

funked out1970

grungy1971

punk1971

grunge1972

Philly1972

dub1973

drum and bass1975

disco funky1976

punkish1976

reggaefied1976

Britpop1977

post-punk1977

anarcho-punk1979

rap1980

trash rock1980

crunchy1981

industrial1981

New Romantic1981

rockist1981

garage1982

hip-hop1982

thrashy1982

urban1982

Gothic1983

hip-hopping1983

beat-box1984

lo-fi1986

technoid1986

hip-house1987

acid house1988

new jack1988

old school1988

techno1988

baggy1990

banging1990

gangsta1990

filthy1991

handbaggy1991

nu skool1991

sampladelic1991

junglist1993

1957 High Fidelity Apr. 91/2 There is more hard-core jazz in his playing than comes from the slightly spiked cocktail style of Stan Seltzer.

1977 Guardian 10 Jan. 8/5 The hard-core punk heroes are the Pistols, Clash and The Damned.

1995 Village Voice (N.Y.) 13 June 68/3 By the Time I get to Colorado is..a veritable codex of appropriated signs and signifiers: guns from hardcore rap; fire and bat-winged angels from heavy metal; the anarchy symbols from punk.

2010 Independent on Sunday 29 Aug. 45/4 ‘Alternative’ communities almost invariably involve copious smoking of hash, scuzzy dreadlocks, hardcore techno, dogs on string and the inescapable feel of urban decay.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	hardcore
释义	hardcoren.adj. Brit. /ˈhɑːdkɔː/, U.S. /ˈhɑrdˌkɔr/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: hard adj., core n.¹ Etymology: < hard adj. + core n.¹ A. n. 1. Building. Broken bricks, rubble, or similar solid material used as a filling or foundation. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > types of material generally > [noun] > building-material > for foundations of buildings or roads hardcore1842 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > for making roads rigging stone1599 metal1782 road metal1805 roadstone1805 metalling1819 road metalling1826 hardcore1842 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > building stone > small or undressed stones for filling in pinning1534 rubble1542 rubble work1675 rubble stone1833 hearting1837 spalled rubble1839 hardcore1842 scruff-stone1869 moellon1875 1842 Times 14 May 2/2 (advt.) Contract for Gravel, Hard Core or Pickings, and Chalk. 1880 Macmillan's Mag. 41 252 Rough bits of all kinds of material, which goes by the name of ‘Hard Core’. 1920 F. Wood Mod. Road Constr. (ed. 2) 257 Hardcore is to be spread over the carriageway to a depth of 12 inches when consolidated by rolling. 1959 Princ. Forced Circulation in Hot Water Heating Syst. (1960) 39 Floors in contact with earth, hardcore etc. 2010 T. Bryan Constr. Technol. (ed. 2) 200 The ground-support slab..will be laid on a layer of compacted fill or hardcore. 2. In form hard core. a. A central or fundamental element which cannot be removed or reduced; an intractable person, group, or thing. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > [noun] > something unchanging leopard1382 the law of the Medes and Persiansc1384 constant1832 hardcore1916 invariance1939 invariant1939 facticity1964 society > authority > lack of subjection > [noun] > insubordinate person > intractable person repugnant1625 Tartar1669 ugly customer1811 recalcitrant1825 non-compliant1854 intractable1883 non-cooperator1896 hardcore1916 badman1954 badass1956 banduluc1977 the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [noun] > obstinate or stubborn person > stubborn minority hardcore1916 the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > constituent part or component > essential part or (also nor) parcel1451 part and parcel1463 hardcore1916 1916 Burlington Mag. Apr. 39/1 However good socialists we may be, we all have, I believe, a hard core of anarchism within us which claims the gratifications of the individual spirit as one of the supreme goods of life. 1936 Nature 12 Sept. 441/2 Possibly 200,000 would be practically unemployable on any ordinary basis—the ‘hard core’ as it is called. 1968 Times 2 Sept. 2/7 Heathrow airport..could, perhaps, be called the hard core of Britain's noise problem. 2011 Independent 15 Dec. 2/2 The criminality and anti-social behaviour committed by a hard core of problem families. b. The most active, committed, or doctrinaire members of a group or movement. ΚΠ 1922 Fortn. Rev. 1 Apr. 575 The Die-Hards..are the hard core of the Unionist Party, the remnant of the old Conservatives, the rump of the still older Tories. 1955 Treatm. Brit. P.O.W.'s in Korea (H.M.S.O.) 25 This camp..was the home of the hard core of Other Rank reactionaries—men who had distinguished themselves by their heroic resistance to all Chinese brutality. 1990 Rolling Stone 5 Apr. 51/2 He liked Jane's Addiction, metal music and jazz, too..and was never a member of the Deadhead hard core. 2012 Church Times 21 Dec. 36/2 I have a moment's sober realisation that our hard core is getting smaller, death having undone two of my most faithful eight o'clockers in the past year. 3. Pornography of a particularly explicit or extreme kind. Cf. sense B. 2. ΚΠ 1971–2 Sight & Sound Winter 28/2 Film-makers are obliged to make their films better..rather than dirtier. This seemed true even of the American hard-core. 1989 L. Williams Hard Core iv. 110 Deep Throat is typical of the new wave of post-1972 narrative hard core. 2005 P. Paul Pornified (2006) 75 His first peek at hardcore was when a friend showed Tyler his older brother's online cache. 4. Originally North American. Any of various forms of popular music (often a variety of an established genre) regarded as particularly uncompromising, extreme, aggressive, or experimental; (in early use chiefly) a particularly fast and harsh form of punk. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > pop music > [noun] > other pop music a cappella1905 soundclash1925 marabi1933 doo-wop1958 filk1959 folk-rock1963 Liverpool sound1963 Mersey beat1963 Mersey sound1963 surf music1963 malombo1964 mbaqanga1964 easy listening1965 disco music1966 Motown1966 boogaloo1967 power pop1967 psychedelia1967 yé-yé1967 agitpop1968 bubblegum1968 Tamla Motown1968 Tex-Mex1968 downtempo1969 taarab1969 thrash1969 world music1969 funk1970 MOR1970 tropicalism1970 Afrobeat1971 electro-pop1971 post-rock1971 techno-pop1971 Tropicalia1971 tropicalismo1971 disco1972 Krautrock1972 schlager1973 Afropop1974 punk funk1974 disco funk1975 Europop1976 mgqashiyo1976 P-funk1976 funkadelia1977 karaoke music1977 alternative music1978 hardcore1978 psychobilly1978 punkabilly1978 R&B1978 cowpunk1979 dangdut1979 hip-hop1979 Northern Soul1979 rap1979 rapping1979 jit1980 trance1980 benga1981 New Romanticism1981 post-punk1981 rap music1981 scratch1982 scratch-music1982 synth-pop1982 electro1983 garage1983 Latin1983 Philly1983 New Age1984 New Age music1985 ambient1986 Britpop1986 gangster rap1986 house1986 house music1986 mbalax1986 rai1986 trot1986 zouk1986 bhangra1987 garage1987 hip-house1987 new school1987 old school1987 thrashcore1987 acid1988 acid house1988 acid jazz1988 ambience1988 Cantopop1988 dance1988 deep house1988 industrial1988 swingbeat1988 techno1988 dream pop1989 gangsta rap1989 multiculti1989 new jack swing1989 noise-pop1989 rave1989 Tejano1989 breakbeat1990 chill-out music1990 indie1990 new jack1990 new jill swing1990 noisecore1990 baggy1991 drum and bass1991 gangsta1991 handbag house1991 hip-pop1991 loungecore1991 psychedelic trance1991 shoegazing1991 slowcore1991 techno-house1991 gabba1992 jungle1992 sadcore1992 UK garage1992 darkcore1993 dark side1993 electronica1993 G-funk1993 sampladelia1994 trip hop1994 break1996 psy-trance1996 nu skool1997 folktronica1999 dubstep2002 Bongo Flava2003 grime2003 Bongo2004 singeli2015 1978 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 5 Apr. (Fanfare section) 11/3 Stewart removes the Bowie disc and replaces it with some Jamaican hard-core. 1984 Washington Post 12 Nov. c6/4 Obscured by a cascade of stage-diving fans, Marginal Man and Government Issue played traditional D.C. hard-core featuring adolescent social comment atop a breathtakingly fast guitar attack. 2013 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 25 Aug. (Arts & Leisure section) 16/6 What is the point..with all these new examples of hardcore, grindcore, D-beat, power-violence, black metal? B. adj. 1. a. Designating an extreme or pronounced example of something; uncompromising; persistent, entrenched. Also: radical, doctrinaire. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > [adjective] fasteOE inunvariable1535 uniform1559 changeless1575 unvariant1582 wasteless1589 unchanging1595 inherent1601 unselfchanging1605 shiftless1606 ne'er-changinga1616 waxlessa1618 immutable1621 equal1626 irreducible1633 indiminishable1641 imprevaricable1644 Median1649 undiminishable1653 assiduous1661 unvarying1690 unfluctuating1723 unrelapsing1740 stable1742 unarbitrary1793 untransferable1794 unaltering1813 constant1817 all-or-nothing1853 all-or-none1864 reducelessc1864 unaugmentable1868 invariant1874 inadaptive1886 plateaued1899 steady state1909 hardcore1951 homoeostatic1955 monochromatic1959 the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > extreme opinion, dogmatism > [adjective] high?1535 Arctic1593 magistral1596 forward1608 confident1611 magisterial1635 pragmatic1638 high-flown1640 affirmative1650 thetical1653 positive1658 pragmatical1660 dogmatical1662 dogmatic1681 unargumentative1722 ultra1820 doctrinaire1834 cocksure1842 doctrinary1846 unevidential1853 Doctrinarian1878 pontificating1922 fundamentalist1928 hardcore1951 the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [adjective] > inflexible ironOE stour1303 strange1338 unmovablea1382 inflexible1398 stoutc1410 unpliablea1425 intreatable1509 stiff1526 stiff-necked1526 unpliant1547 stout-hearted1552 inexorable1553 obstinate1559 strait-laced1560 impersuasible1576 unflexiblea1586 hard-edged1589 adamantive1594 unyielding1594 adder-deaf1597 steeled1600 irrefragable1601 rigid1606 unpersuadable1607 imployable1613 unswayablea1616 uncompellable1623 inflexive?1624 over-rigid1632 unlimbera1639 seta1640 incomplying1640 uncomplying1643 stiff-girt1659 impersuadable1680 unbendinga1688 impracticable1713 unblendable1716 stiff-rumped1728 unconvinciblea1747 uncompounding1782 unplastic1787 unbending1796 adamant1816 uneasy1819 uncompromising1828 cast iron1829 hard-hitting1831 rigoristic1844 ramrod1850 pincé1858 anchylosed1860 unbendable1884 tape-bound1900 tape-tied1900 hard line1903 tough1905 absolutist1907 hard-arsed1942 go-for-broke1946 hardcore1951 hard-arse1966 hard-ass1967 hardball1974 1951 J. Cornish Provincials 24 The party was acknowledged even by the hard-core cynics to be a credit to the Dunseith brothers. 1965 Harper's Feb. 69/2 We were scouting a hard-core Vietcong battalion. 1975 Citizen (Prince George, Brit. Columbia) 20 May 3 Most juvenile offenders would still be referred to the human resources department's community programs but a few hardcore cases will remain under the jurisdiction of his department even after sentencing. 2007 J. Ferris And then we came to End i. iii. 101 Marcia spoke with a hardcore South Side accent and wore the accompanying tall hair with bangs. b. Esp. of a supporter: highly committed or dedicated. ΚΠ 1951 Planning 26 Feb. 178 A team's victories or defeats..have a psychological effect on the ‘hard core’ supporters which is reflected in their standard of work during the week. 1970 Compar. Politics Jan. 252 The FRAP finds its hardcore supporters among certain sectors of the Chilean proletariat such as the traditionally radical miners. 1996 Entertainm. Weekly 10 May 39/3 Hardcore fans of the low-rated weepfest Sisters will not be disappointed by its finale. 2014 E. Adams Fund. Game Design 97 The hardcore gamer actively seeks gaming-related information through the Internet. 2. Designating pornography of a very explicit kind; of or relating to such pornography. ΚΠ 1957 J. L. Rankin et al. Brief for U.S. filed in U.S. Supreme Court, Samuel Roth v. U.S. 17 Apr. 7 Over 90 percent of such convictions under the statute are for the mailing of material which is ‘hard-core’ pornography—commercially produced booklets and photographs dealing with every form of sexual perversion and activity known. 1975 P. Kronhausen & E. Kronhausen Sex People vii. 74 The obligatory ‘cum shots’ in hard-core porn movies. 2007 Time Out N.Y. 18 Jan. 86/2 This recurring standup and variety show also features..the ‘porno corner’ in which Hawley analyzes hardcore scenes. 3. Designating a particularly uncompromising, extreme, aggressive, or experimental version of any of various types of popular music (originally jazz). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > pop music > [adjective] > qualities of pop metal?1518 anthemic1890 Afro-Latin-American1900 sun-kissed1907 heavy1937 Latin American1937 Memphis1938 sun-drenched1943 indie1945 rockish1955 hardcore1957 doo-wop1958 middle of the road1959 Latin1962 straight-ahead1964 easy listening1965 Motown1965 funky1967 post-rock1967 rocky1967 rock-out1968 funkadelic1969 funked out1970 grungy1971 punk1971 grunge1972 Philly1972 dub1973 drum and bass1975 disco funky1976 punkish1976 reggaefied1976 Britpop1977 post-punk1977 anarcho-punk1979 rap1980 trash rock1980 crunchy1981 industrial1981 New Romantic1981 rockist1981 garage1982 hip-hop1982 thrashy1982 urban1982 Gothic1983 hip-hopping1983 beat-box1984 lo-fi1986 technoid1986 hip-house1987 acid house1988 new jack1988 old school1988 techno1988 baggy1990 banging1990 gangsta1990 filthy1991 handbaggy1991 nu skool1991 sampladelic1991 junglist1993 1957 High Fidelity Apr. 91/2 There is more hard-core jazz in his playing than comes from the slightly spiked cocktail style of Stan Seltzer. 1977 Guardian 10 Jan. 8/5 The hard-core punk heroes are the Pistols, Clash and The Damned. 1995 Village Voice (N.Y.) 13 June 68/3 By the Time I get to Colorado is..a veritable codex of appropriated signs and signifiers: guns from hardcore rap; fire and bat-winged angels from heavy metal; the anarchy symbols from punk. 2010 Independent on Sunday 29 Aug. 45/4 ‘Alternative’ communities almost invariably involve copious smoking of hash, scuzzy dreadlocks, hardcore techno, dogs on string and the inescapable feel of urban decay. 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