hardcore

Meanings

Adjective

• Having an extreme dedication to a certain activity.
• Particularly intense; thrillingly dangerous or erratic; desirably violent in appearance; pleasing or "cool" due to intensity or danger.
• Resistant to change.
• Obscene or explicit.
• Depicting penetration and abnormal sexual activity.
• Faster or more intense than the regular style.

Noun

• Broken bricks, stone and/or other aggregate used as foundations, especially in road and path laying.
• Several music genres, including:

Origin

• hard + core 1936 (n.); 1951 (adj.)