hardcore

See also: hard-core and Hardcore

English

Alternative forms

• hard-core

Etymology

From hard +‎ core: hard to the core; 1936 (n.); 1951 (adj.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɑː(ɹ)dˈkɔː(ɹ)/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)

Adjective

hardcore (comparative more hardcore, superlative most hardcore)

1. Having an extreme dedication to a certain activity.

   Synonyms: diehard, steely-eyed, tough as nails, gung ho

   He's a hardcore gamer.

2. So hard as to require extreme dedication to complete.
3. (colloquial) Particularly intense; thrillingly dangerous or erratic; desirably violent in appearance; pleasing or "cool" due to intensity or danger.

   That show was hardcore, dude.

4. Resistant to change.
5. Obscene or explicit.
6. (pornography) Depicting penetration and abnormal sexual activity.
7. (music) Faster or more intense than the regular style.

Translations

having an extreme dedication to a certain activity

• Bulgarian: заклет (bg) (zaklet)
• Hungarian: megszállott (hu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hardbarket, innbitt, svoren

• Portuguese: hardcore (pt)
• Slovene: ^{(please verify)} izredno predan neki aktivnosti
• Spanish: esforzado (es), muy dedicado
• Swedish: inbiten (sv), stenhård (sv)

particularly intense

• Bulgarian: хардкор (hardkor)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 硬核 (zh) (yìnghé)

• Polish: hardcore'owy
• Portuguese: punk (pt)
• Spanish: intensísimo (es)
• Swedish: mäktig (sv), intensiv (sv)

resistant to change

• Bulgarian: неизменим (bg) (neizmenim)
• Finnish: sitkeä (fi), peräänantamaton (fi)
• Slovene: ^{(please verify)} nasprotujoč spremembam
• Spanish: duro (es), resistente (es), renuente (es), acérrimo (es), incondicional (es)

obscene or explicit

• Bulgarian: неприличен (bg) (nepriličen), нецензурен (bg) (necenzuren)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hardcore

• Russian: неприличный (ru) m (nepriličnyj)
• Slovene: nespodoben, nedvoumen, jasen (sl)
• Spanish: obsceno (es), explícito (es)

of or pertaining to pornography that depicts penetration

• Bengali: হার্ডকোর পর্নোগ্রাফি (bn) (harḍokōr pornōgraphi)
• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: kova (fi)
• Hungarian: kemény pornó (hu)
• Persian: هاردکور (hârd-kor)
• Spanish: duro (es), extremo (es)
• Swedish: Hårdporr

faster or more intense than the regular style

• Bulgarian: хардкор (hardkor)
• Slovene: ^{(please verify)} htrejši in močnejši kot običajen , ^{(please verify)} osnoven slog
• Spanish: duro (es), violento (es), pesado (es)
• Swedish: hård-

Noun

hardcore (uncountable)

1. Broken bricks, stone and/or other aggregate used as foundations, especially in road and path laying.
   • 2014 August 24, Jeff Howell, “Home improvements: gravel paths and cutting heating bills [print version: Cold comfort in technology, 23 August 2014, p. P5]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Property)‎^[1]:

     You need to excavate and remove the topsoil, line the subsoil with a geotextile, then lay and compact hardcore.

2. Several music genres, including:
   1. Hardcore punk.
      • 1981, Cary Darling, Billboard, page 10:

        Fields began recording the hardcore punk bands in 1978 when few others would.

   2. Gangsta rap.
   3. Hardcore techno.
   4. Jungle.
      • 1994 September, Simon Reynolds, “Above The Treeline”, in The Wire‎^[2]:

        Always more multiracial than other post-Rave scenes, Hardcore got “blacker” as hiphop, Ragga, dub and Soul influences kicked in, and by 93 it had evolved into Jungle. By this point, Hardcore/Jungle (the terms remain interchangeable) was universally scorned by dance hipsters and banished from the media.

   5. Outlaw country.

Derived terms

• Christian hardcore
• -core
• digital hardcore
• emocore
• emotional hardcore
• emotive hardcore
• happy hardcore
• hardcore breaks
• hardcore porn
• hardcore pornography
• hardcore punk
• hurtcore
• melodic hardcore
• nonhardcore
• posthardcore
• post-hardcore
• trancecore
• UK hardcore

Descendants

• → German: Hardcore
• Russian: хардко́р m (xardkór)

Translations

hardcore punk or techno music

• Bulgarian: хардкор m (hardkor)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 硬核 (zh) (yìnghé)

• Marathi: हार्डकोर n (hārḍkor)
• Polish: hardcore (pl) m
• Portuguese: hardcore (pt) m
• Russian: хардко́р (ru) m (xardkór)
• Swedish: hardcore (sv) c

broken bricks, stone and/or aggregate

• Bulgarian: чакъл (bg) m (čakǎl)

Adverb

hardcore (not comparable)

1. (colloquial) In a hardcore manner; intensely or extremely.

Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *kret-der.?

Proto-Germanic *harduz

Proto-Germanic *-jaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ī

Proto-West Germanic *hard(ī)

Old English heard

Middle English hard

English hard

Middle English core

English core

English hardcoreubor.

Polish hardcore

Unadapted borrowing from English hardcore.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxar.tkɔr/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -artkɔr
• Syllabification: hard‧core

Noun

hardcore m inan

1. (slang) something hardcore (particularly intense)
2. (music) hardcore (hardcore punk or techno music)

Declension

Declension of hardcore

	singular
nominative	hardcore
genitive	hardcore'u
dative	hardcore'owi
accusative	hardcore
instrumental	hardcore'em
locative	hardcorze
vocative	hardcorze

Derived terms

adjective

• hardcore'owy

noun

• hardcorowiec

Further reading

• “hardcore”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English hardcore.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xaɾˈkoɾ/ [xaɾˈkoɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ

Noun

hardcore m (plural hardcores)

1. hardcore

   quiere ser hardcore y su mamá no lo deja

   he wants to be hardcore and his mother doesn't let him

Adjective

hardcore (invariable)

1. hardcore

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.