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hard core

hard core noun
hard core
noun
Learner's definition of HARD CORE
[singular]
: a small number of very active and enthusiastic members of a group : the most devoted and active members of a group(某群体中的)核心力量,骨干力量,中坚力量

hard-core

hard-core /ˈhɑɚdˈkoɚ/ adjective
hard-core
/ˈhɑɚdˈkoɚ/
adjective
Learner's definition of HARD-CORE
[more hard-core; most hard-core]
: very active and enthusiastic狂热的
: showing or describing sex acts very openly(对性行为的描述)露骨的
compare soft-core
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See also: hard-core


hard-core

1 of 2

adjective

1
a
: of, relating to, or being part of a hard core
hard-core poverty
the hard-core unemployed
b
: confirmed, die-hard
hard-core rock fans
a hard-core liberal
2
of pornography : containing explicit descriptions of sex acts or scenes of actual sex acts compare soft-core
3
: characterized by or being the purest or most basic form of something : fundamental
a room gussied up in hard-core French provincial style John Canaday

hard core

2 of 2

noun

1
: a central or fundamental and usually enduring group or part: such as
a
: a relatively small enduring core of society marked by apparent resistance to change or inability to escape a persistent wretched condition (such as poverty or chronic unemployment)
b
: a militant or fiercely loyal faction
2
usually hardcore , chiefly British : hard material in pieces (such as broken bricks or stone) used as a bottom (as in making roads and in foundations)

Example Sentences

Noun He knows that he can count on the support of a hard core of party loyalists.
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
Truss campaigned for her party’s leadership on a platform pandering to the Tory’s hard core. Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2022 Support for those beliefs goes beyond the hard core of people who openly advocate violence. David Lautersenior Editor, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2022 Tuesday is for keynotes and consumer hardware, and the next three day are for hard core geeks. Charlie Fink, Forbes, 26 May 2022 Strong believers in political violence, that 5%, are the hardest of the hard core. David Lautersenior Editor, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2022 Equity believers have to be a hard core buy the dippers to not acknowledge this is one frightening chart with a trajectory aiming at 10,000 and probably lower. Clem Chambers, Forbes, 19 May 2022 The suffix -core comes from hard core, which at first (1841) referred to broken bricks or stones that formed the hard substratum of roads and foundations. Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Feb. 2022 Yet another wave of completely pointless death seems to be motivating a lot of people to finally get vaccinated — but thus far the procrastinators, not the ideological, hard core antivaxxers. Ryan Cooper, The Week, 27 Aug. 2021 And a hard core of vaccine resistance, often tied to far-right populism, helped set the stage for a virulent fourth wave of infections now raging across Europe, triggering stringent lockdowns whose like hadn’t been seen for months. Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2021 See More

Word History

First Known Use

Adjective

1934, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Noun

1841, in the meaning defined at sense 2

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The first known use of hard-core was in 1841
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