hard core: Meaning and Definition of

hard' core'

1. the permanent, dedicated, and completely faithful nucleus of a group or movement, as of a political party.
2. an unyielding or intransigent element in a social or organizational structure, as that part of a group consisting of longtime adherents or those resistant to change.
3. those whose condition seems to be without hope of remedy or change.

hard-core

1. unswervingly committed; uncompromising; dedicated: a hard-core segregationist.
2. pruriently explicit; graphically depicted: hard-core pornography.
3. being so without apparent change or remedy; chronic:Cf. soft-core. hard-core inflation; hard-core unemployment.