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(Since you’re used to cliché Dictionary definitions etc…we thought you should actually understand the name instead of calling the office and making baby-murdering references, especially you religious motherfuckers.)

ABORT
a·bort /Show Spelled Pronunciation[uh-bawrt]
–verb (used without object)

1. to develop incompletely; remain in a rudimentary or undeveloped state.
2. to fail, cease, or stop at an early or premature stage.
3. Military. to fail to accomplish a purpose or mission for any reason other than enemy action.
4. Rocketry. (of a missile) to stop before the scheduled flight is completed.
5. Magazine. ABORT Magazine A non-profit Canadian Counter-Culture Magazine

–verb (used with object)

1. to cause to cease or end at an early or premature stage: We aborted the Judas Priest concert in Toronto after Rob Halford fell off his Harley during the intro for “Hell Bent For Leather”. Shame.
2. to terminate (a missile flight, mission, etc.) before completion.
3. to put down or quell in the early stages: Troops aborted the uprising.
4. to dispose of: I aborted my high, by throwing my Meth pipe down the toilet.

COUNTER-CULTURE

(SOURCE – Wikipedia) – Counterculture (also written counter-culture) is a sociological term used to describe the values and norms of behavior of a cultural group, or subculture, that run counter to those of the social mainstream of the day,[1] the cultural equivalent of political opposition. Counterculture can also be described as deviating away from the norm of society, or what is perceived to be normal. This deviation takes a group or behavior to be segregated from the norms. It is a neologism attributed to Theodore Roszak.

Although distinct countercultural undercurrents have existed in many societies, here the term refers to a more significant, visible phenomenon that reaches critical mass and persists for a period of time. A countercultural movement expresses the ethos, aspirations, and dreams of a specific population during an era—a social manifestation of zeitgeist. It is important to distinguish between “counterculture,” “subculture,” and “fringe culture”.

Countercultural milieux in 19th-century Europe included Romanticism, Bohemianism, and the Dandy. Another movement existed in a more fragmentary form in the 1950s, both in Europe and the United States, in the form of the Beat generation,[2] followed in the 1960s by the hippies and anti-Vietnam War protesters.
The term came to prominence in the news media, as it was used to refer to the social revolution that swept North America, Western Europe, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand during the 1960s and early 1970s.

HARDCORE
Function: noun
1 : a central or fundamental and usually enduring group or part: as a : a relatively small enduring core of society marked by apparent resistance to change or inability to escape a persistent wretched condition (as poverty or chronic unemployment) b : a militant or fiercely loyal faction

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