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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hardcore

also hard-core; 1936 (n.); 1951 (adj.); from hard + core. Original use seems to be among economists and sociologists. Extension to pornography is attested by 1966. Also the name of a surfacing material.

Wiktionary
hardcore

a. 1 Having an extreme dedication to a certain activity; diehard. 2 (context slang English) Particularly intense; thrillingly dangerous or erratic; desirably violent in appearance; pleasing or "cool" due to intensity or danger. 3 Resistant to change. 4 obscene or explicit. 5 (context pornography English) Depicting penetration. 6 (context music English) Faster or more intense than the regular style. alt. 1 Having an extreme dedication to a certain activity; diehard. 2 (context slang English) Particularly intense; thrillingly dangerous or erratic; desirably violent in appearance; pleasing or "cool" due to intensity or danger. 3 Resistant to change. 4 obscene or explicit. 5 (context pornography English) Depicting penetration. 6 (context music English) Faster or more intense than the regular style. n. 1 broken bricks, stone and/or other aggregate used as foundations especially in road and path laying. 2 (l/en: hardcore punk) 3 (l/en: gangsta rap) 4 (l/en: hardcore techno)

WordNet
hardcore
  1. adj. stubbornly resistant to change or improvement; "hard-core addicts" [syn: hard-core]

  2. intensely loyal; "his hard-core supporters" [syn: hard-core]

  3. extremely explicit; "hard-core pornography" [syn: hard-core]

Wikipedia
Hardcore

Hardcore, hard core or hard-core may refer to:

Hardcore (electronic dance music genre)

Hardcore, formerly called hardcore techno, is a subgenre of electronic dance music that originated in the Netherlands from the emergent raves/gabber in the 1990s. Its subgenres are usually distinct from other electronic dance music genres by faster tempos (160 to 200 BPM or more), the intensity of the kicks and the synthesized bass (in some subgenres), the rhythm and the atmosphere of the themes (sometimes violent), the usage of saturation and experimentation close to that of industrial dance music.

Hardcore (1979 film)

Hardcore is a 1979 American crime drama film written and directed by Paul Schrader and starring George C. Scott, Peter Boyle and Season Hubley. The story concerns a father searching for his daughter, who has vanished only to appear in a pornographic film. Writer-director Schrader had previously written the screenplay for Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver, and both films share a theme of exploring an unseen subculture.

Hardcore (Daddy Freddy album)

Hardcore is an album by Daddy Freddy.

Hardcore (1977 film)

Hardcore is a 1977 British comedy film directed by James Kenelm Clarke and starring Fiona Richmond, Anthony Steel, Victor Spinetti, Ronald Fraser and Harry H. Corbett. It depicts a highly fictionalised account of the life of Richmond, who was a leading pin-up in the 1970s.

In the US the film was known as Fiona.

Usage examples of "hardcore".

She gathers her robes, ready again to ascend, then thinks to ask if Molto plans to indict Hardcore and his co-defendant together.

Chuck gettin half-a-one-fifty dollars---every month from Ordell, and Chuck, he like to love Hardcore, man, see him, Chuck damn well salute.

THE LAWS OF OUR FATHERS The elevator, one of them, is working again today and Hardcore rides to 17.

Any po-lice, any rent-a-cop, any limp DEA, any them mothers truck into them towers, Hardcore gone know.

They on top, man, but they all the time trippin and shit, worryin is Hardcore on this power thang, man, he gone bust his whole set right out the gang or what?

Walking from the IV Tower, the first stirrings of the day, music and voices, from some windows, wondering is he really gone get himself gauged, Hardcore -thinks, as he often does, about his sons.

But Hardcore, burly, dark, with thick eyes, maintains himself with dignity.

With day-for-day good time, Hardcore will be out of the penitentiary in a decade.

Trent, he, Hardcore, and Nile developed a personal relationship, a friendship of kinds.

Nile told his father Hardcore had something important to discuss with him.

Ordell Trent, from Hardcore, but from a young female gang member, a juvenile named Lovinia Campbell.

Montague says he received the money from Hardcore, initialed it, and submitted it for fingerprint examination.

Aires talked about what-all Hardcore might 168 THE LAWS OF OUR FATHERS say if he turned himself in and what kind of a deal he could get, right?

Attorney Aires let you know that Hardcore was willing to say this whole killing, the entire thing, had been the idea of his probation officer, Nile Eddgar?

He was suggesting that the prosecutors and cops, hungry for the excitement of a heater case, had been less skeptical than they should have about what Hardcore was saying.