hardcore
nounEtymology From hard + core: hard to the core; 1936 (n.); 1951 (adj.)
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Broken bricks, stone and/or other aggregate used as foundations, especially in road and path laying.
- You need to excavate and remove the topsoil, line the subsoil with a geotextile, then lay and compact hardcore.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):
› Several music genres, including:
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Hardcore punk.
- Fields began recording the hardcore punk bands in 1978 when few others would.1981, Cary Darling, Billboard, page 10:
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Gangsta rap.
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Hardcore techno.
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Jungle.
- 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.1994 September, Simon Reynolds, “Above The Treeline”, in The Wire:
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Outlaw country.
- Derived terms
- Christian hardcore, -core, digital hardcore, emocore, emotional hardcore, emotive hardcore, happy hardcore, hardcore breaks, hardcore porn, hardcore pornography, hardcore punk, hurtcore, melodic hardcore, nonhardcore, posthardcore, post-hardcore, trancecore, UK hardcore