hardcore
pronunciation
How to pronounce hardcore in British English:
UK ['hɑ:dkɔ:]
How to pronounce hardcore in American English:
US ['hɑdˌkoʊr]
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- Adjective:
- stubbornly resistant to change or improvement
- intensely loyal
- extremely explicit
Word Origin
- hardcore
- also hard-core; 1936 (n.); 1951 (adj.); from hard (adj.) + core (n.). Original use seems to be among economists and sociologists, in reference to unemployables. Extension to pornography is attested by 1966. Also the name of a surfacing material.
Example
- 1. For years , hardcore techies blasted microsoft for being better at marketing than developing products .
- 2. While a hardcore of protesters remain , peace has recently broken out in minibond land .
- 3. Not the " keeping it real " or being hardcore in every way .
- 4. Leprechauns are hardcore drinkers by nature .
- 5. So hardcore , you don 't feel anything .