dadcore

A genre, aesthetic, or fashion trend stereotypically associated with fatherhood or particularly popular among fathers.

Noun

  1. A genre, aesthetic, or fashion trend stereotypically associated with fatherhood or particularly popular among fathers.
    • Dadcore is more narrowly defined by being rip-snorting action movies—many of them hardcore and rated R—in which the plot is vaguely defined by a male character seeking revenge or vengeance or some kind of justice...
    • But does fatherhood really mean I have to become “dadcore” – wearing clothing that is comfortable, with no real regard for fit or appearance and, according to this paper’s own style guru, Hadley Freeman, “anything from...
    • My two best friends wore what they normally wore, which was to say a combination of low-performance joggers and blank polos that were so normcore, they went through dadcore and into weekend dadcore beyond. - 2020, David...

Origin

From dad + -core.