Main Entry:

hard–core

Pronunciation:

\-ˈkȯr\

Function:

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>2of pornography : containing explicit descriptions of sex acts or scenes of actual sex acts — compare soft-core3: 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>