HARD-CORE


Meaning of HARD-CORE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ -ˈkȯr ]

adjective

Date: 1940

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

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.