¦ ̷ ̷ ¦ ̷ ̷ adjective
Etymology: hard core
1. : of, relating to, or being persons whose economic position and educational background are substandard and who experience chronic unemployment
the hard-core unemployed
2. : confirmed : die-hard
hard-core football fans
a hard-core liberal
3. of pornography : containing explicit descriptions of sex acts or scenes of actual sex acts — compare soft-core herein
4. : 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
5. : serious or intense in nature or degree
hard-core crime