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hard–core
adjective \-ˈkȯr\
: very active and enthusiastic
: showing or describing sex acts very openly
Full Definition of HARD-CORE
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of pornography : containing explicit descriptions of sex acts or scenes of actual sex acts — compare soft-core
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: 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>
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First Known Use of HARD-CORE
1940
Related to HARD-CORE
- Synonyms
- bred-in-the-bone, confirmed, deep, deep-rooted, deep-seated, entrenched (also intrenched), hard-core, rooted, settled
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