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Noun

hardcore (uncountable)

1. 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)
2. Hardcore punk.
   • Fields began recording the hardcore punk bands in 1978 when few others would.1981, Cary Darling, Billboard, page 10
3. Gangsta rap.
4. Hardcore techno.
5. 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...1994 September, Simon Reynolds, “Above The Treeline”, in The Wire
6. Outlaw country.

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