Hardcore
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Hardcore usually means hardcore pornography, a form of pornography that features explicit sexual acts, although in recent years its usage has been extended to a variety of musical genres.
Hardcore may refer to:
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Music
- Hardcore punk (better known as simply "hardcore"), a sub-genre of punk rock music
- HarDCore, a portmanteau abbreviation for hardcore punk music in Washington, D.C.
- Hardcore techno (also better known simply as "hardcore"), a style of electronic music
- Hardcore hip hop, a sub-genre of hip hop music
- Hard Core (Lil' Kim album)
- Hard Core (Paul Dean album)
- Hardcore (album), a 2004 album by Daddy Freddy
- Hardcore '81, album by D.O.A.
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Other
- Hardcore wrestling, a form of professional wrestling
- Hardcore dancing, a maneuver usually performed at live performances of heavy or extreme music
- Hardcore pornography, an explicit form of pornography
- Hardcore (comics), a fictional character in the Marvel Universe
- Hardcore (1977 film), a British comedy film
- Hardcore (1979 film), an American drama film starring George C Scott
- A "hard core" is one kind of semiconductor intellectual property core
- Permanent death, called "hardcore mode" in certain video games
- Hardcore Gamer, a monthly-published video game magazine
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See also
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