hardcore

adjective

1. 1

   Having an extreme dedication to a certain activity.

   He's a hardcore gamer.

2. 2

   So hard as to require extreme dedication to complete.

3. 3

   Particularly intense; thrillingly dangerous or erratic; desirably violent in appearance; pleasing or "cool" due to intensity or danger.

   That show was hardcore, dude.

4. 4

   Resistant to change.

5. 5

   Obscene or explicit.

6. 6

   Depicting penetration and abnormal sexual activity.

7. 7

   Faster or more intense than the regular style.

noun

1. 1

   Broken bricks, stone and/or other aggregate used as foundations, especially in road and path laying.

   You need to excavate and remove the topsoil, line the subsoil with a geotextile, then lay and compact hardcore.

2. 2

   Several music genres, including: Hardcore punk.

   Fields began recording the hardcore punk bands in 1978 when few others would.

3. 3

   Several music genres, including: Gangsta rap.

4. 4

   Several music genres, including: Hardcore techno.

5. 5

   Several music genres, including: Jungle.

   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.

6. 6

   Several music genres, including: Outlaw country.

adverb

1. 1

   In a hardcore manner; intensely or extremely.

Forms

comparative

more hardcore

superlative

most hardcore