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Definition of 'HARD-CORE'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (adj.) hard-core
unswervingly committed; uncompromising:
a hard-core conservative.

2. hard-core
pruriently explicit; graphically depicted: hard-core pornography.

3. hard-core
being so without apparent change or remedy; chronic:
hard-core unemployment.

Etymology: (1950–55)

Definition of 'HARD-CORE'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (adj) hard core
the most dedicated and intensely loyal nucleus of a group or movement

2. (adj) hard-core
stubbornly resistant to change or improvement
"hard-core addicts"

3. (adj) hard-core, hardcore
intensely loyal
"his hard-core supporters"

4. (adj) hard-core, hardcore
extremely explicit
"hard-core pornography"

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