# hardcore
## English
### Alternative forms

* hard-core

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hɑː(ɹ)dˈkɔː(ɹ)/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)

### Adjective

hardcore (comparative more hardcore, superlative most hardcore)
* Having an extreme dedication to a certain activity.
    Synonyms: diehard, steely-eyed, tough as nails, gung ho
    He's a hardcore gamer.
* (colloquial) Particularly intense; thrillingly dangerous or erratic; desirably violent in appearance; pleasing or "cool" due to intensity or danger.
    That show was hardcore, dude.
* Resistant to change.
* Obscene or explicit.
* (pornography) Depicting penetration and abnormal sexual activity.
* (music) Faster or more intense than the regular style.

#### Translations
### Noun

hardcore (uncountable)
* 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)‎:You need to excavate and remove the topsoil, line the subsoil with a geotextile, then lay and compact hardcore.
* Several music genres, including:
** Hardcore punk.
*** 1981, Cary Darling, Billboard, page 10:Fields began recording the hardcore punk bands in 1978 when few others would.
** Gangsta rap.
** Hardcore techno.
** Jungle.
*** 1994 September, Simon Reynolds, “Above The Treeline”, in The Wire‎: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.
** Outlaw country.

#### Derived terms

* Christian hardcore
* -core
* digital hardcore
* happy hardcore
* hardcore breaks
* hardcore porn
* hardcore pornography
* hardcore punk
* melodic hardcore
* post-hardcore
* UK hardcore

#### Descendants

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

#### Translations
### Adverb

hardcore (not comparable)
* (colloquial) In a hardcore manner; intensely or extremely.

## Polish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English hardcore.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈxar.tkɔr/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -artkɔr
* Syllabification: hard‧core

### Noun

hardcore m inan
* (slang) something hardcore (particularly intense)
* (music) hardcore (hardcore punk or techno music)

#### Derived terms

* hardcore'owy
* hardcorowiec

### Further reading

* hardcore in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Spanish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English hardcore.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /xaɾˈkoɾ/ [xaɾˈkoɾ]
* Rhymes: -oɾ

### Noun

hardcore m (plural hardcores)
* hardcore
    quiere ser hardcore y su mamá no lo dejahe wants to be hardcore and his mother doesn't let him

### Adjective

hardcore (invariable)
* 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.