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Meaning of Hardcore | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Standard
hɑː(ɹ)dˈkɔː(ɹ)

Definitions

  1. Broken bricks, stone and/or other aggregate used as foundations, especially in road and path laying.
  2. Several music genres, including:
  3. Hardcore punk.
  4. Gangsta rap.
  5. Hardcore techno.
  6. Jungle.
  7. Outlaw country.

Equivalents

Examples

“You need to excavate and remove the topsoil, line the subsoil with a geotextile, then lay and compact hardcore.”
“Fields began recording the hardcore punk bands in 1978 when few others would.”
“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.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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