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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
Dictionary.com Unabridged
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
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
hard-core

  1. mod.
    sexually explicit; pornographic. : You can't sell that hard-core stuff in a store like this!
  2. mod.
    extreme; entrenched. : There are too many hard-core cases of poverty there.
  3. mod.
    very good; stunning; great. : I'd like a really hard-core pizza with at least five kinds of cheese.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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