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hard-core

  [hahrd-kawr, -kohr]
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–adjective
1. unswervingly committed; uncompromising; dedicated: a hard-core segregationist.
2. pruriently explicit; graphically depicted: hard-core pornography.
3. being so without apparent change or remedy; chronic: hard-core inflation; hard-core unemployment.
Compare soft-core.

Origin:
1950–55
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Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
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hard core  
n.  
  1. The most dedicated, unfailingly loyal faction of a group or organization: the hard core of the separatist movement.
  2. An intractable core or nucleus of a society, especially one that is stubbornly resistant to improvement or change.
  3. often hard·core (härd'kôr', -kōr') A form of exceptionally harsh punk rock.
hard-core also hard·core   (härd'kôr', -kōr')
adj.  
  1. Intensely loyal; die-hard: a hard-core secessionist; a hard-core golfer.
  2. Stubbornly resistant to improvement or change: hard-core poverty.
  3. Extremely graphic or explicit: hard-core pornography.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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