Definitions for hard-core

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Spelling: [hahrd-kawr, -kohr]

IPA: /ˈhɑrdˈkɔr, -ˈkoʊr/

Hard-Core is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 258 anagrams from letters in hard-core (-acdehorr).

Definitions for hard-core

noun

1. the permanent, dedicated, and completely faithful nucleus of a group or movement, as of a political party.
2. an unyielding or intransigent element in a social or organizational structure, as that part of a group consisting of longtime adherents or those resistant to change.
3. those whose condition seems to be without hope of remedy or change.
4. Usually, hardcore. a form of punk rock or other nonmainstream popular music played in an intense, harsh, and fast style with more emphasis on rhythm than on melody.

adjective

1. unswervingly committed; uncompromising; dedicated:
2. relating to or containing sexually arousing depictions that are very graphic or explicit: Compare soft-core.
3. being so without apparent change or remedy; chronic:
4. very intense or extreme:
5. Usually, hardcore. noting or relating to the music genre hardcore, or the subculture, clothing style, etc., associated with it:
6. noting or relating to video games that can only be mastered with advanced skill and are played in longer sessions, or noting a player of such games: Compare casual (def 8).

Origin of hard-core

First recorded in 1950-55

Examples for hard-core

Eric Cantor lost because hard-core voters think his kind keep selling out to Obama.

While researching my latest book, The Ministry of Thin, last year, I began to notice how hard-core exercise had become.

“We were taught with Reefer Madness that it was a hard-core drug and we should veer away from it,” she says.

Depending on who you ask, Ford has the hard-core support of between 20 percent and 35 percent of Torontonians.

Now even some hard-core conservatives are about to take the cash.

That was a great, hard-core, intensive training—not for the camera, but for how to get coverage.

Politicians who openly associated with Duke, or his hard-core associates, did so at their own risk.

hard-core Moscow supporters like Oleg Tsarev, a local parliament member, were chased out of town with bounties their heads.

This year, the time has come when we must get to those who are last in line--the hard-core unemployed--the hardest to reach.

Not that Bryk is a hard-core partisan seeking to reinvigorate the Democratic Party with some kind of 50-state strategy.