hardcore

6 definitions • 13 examples

(of a person) having a very strong belief or interest in something or a lot of determination to do it, sometimes to a degree that most people would consider unreasonable or unacceptable:

A hardcore faction within the group is thought to have carried out the bombings.

We want to develop games that have a broader appeal beyond hard-core gamers.

The team is pretty hardcore, even practising in the snow.

having extreme qualities that are attractive to people with a very strong belief or interest in something or a lot of determination to do it:

Hardcore activism is their mission.

Their sound is hard-core punk.

showing sexual acts clearly and in detail:

hardcore pornography

a small group of people within a larger group, who have a very strong belief or interest in something or a lot of determination to do it, even if most other people consider this unreasonable or unacceptable:

The hard core of the party has not lost sight of the original ideals.

A hard-core of drivers still persistently drive when drunk.

There was a hardcore who came to the festival mostly to fight.

pieces of broken stone, brick, etc. used to make the base under a floor, path, or road:

The ash from the incinerators is recycled as hardcore for construction.

The lorries brought in hard core to lay the roads.

a type of extremely fast, loud punk music (= fast, loud, sometimes offensive music that was popular in the late 1970s), often with angry political lyrics (= words):

We were inspired by early 80s hardcore.

We play with more sophistication than the heavy-metal, punk, and hard-core bands we listened to in our youth.