Definition of Hard core

1. Noun. The most dedicated and intensely loyal nucleus of a group or movement.

Generic synonyms: Camp, Clique, Coterie, Ingroup, Inner Circle, Pack

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hard Core

hard as nails
hard beech
hard by
hard c
hard candy
hard case
hard cash
hard cataract
hard chancre
hard cheese
hard cider
hard coal
hard code
hard copies
hard copy
hard core (current term)
hard corn
hard count
hard currency
hard disc
hard disc drive
hard disk
hard disk drive
hard disk drives
hard disks
hard done by
hard drink
hard drive
hard drives
hard drop

Literary usage of Hard core

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Trade and Competition, from Doha to Cancún by OECD Staff (2003)
"hard core Cartels Throughout this session there was a strong consensus that hard core cartels are the most egregious anticompetitive practice and they ..."

2. Paradoxes of Free Will by Gunther Siegmund Stent (2002)
"... such as aggression and marital infidelity, on the grounds that animals exhibit them in nature, for evolutionary accountable reasons. Hard-core ..."

3. Ireland by OECD Staff, OECD (2006)
"In principle, the sanctions that can be applied against hard-core violations ... The 2002 amendments tried to facilitate conviction for hard-core offences ..."

4. Competition Law and Policy in Latin America: Peer Reviews of Argentina by Inter-American Development Bank (2006)
"The Prosecutor's Office is moving to improve enforcement against hard core cartels. One of the proposed amendments in the ..."

5. Making the Small Shop Profitable by John Herbert Van Deventer (1918)
"... and hard Core fine grained and fough,IS%to!0% Carbon Reheated to toughen the Case <:FiG. 2. WHY HEAT TREATMENT .,,,4' OF CASEHARDENED WORK ..."

6. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1879)
"hard core " consists of brickbats, broken tiles and slates, cracked crockery, oyster- shells — in short, the miscellany of malodorous rubbish that may be ..."

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