Definition of "softcore" [softcore]

• Being less explicit than hard-core material in depicting or describing sexual activity: softcore pornography. (adjective)
• Moderate: a softcore sports fan. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "'They then received a letter from the academic's lawyer threatening litigation if her name was linked to the book, which she described as softcore pornography."
• "So tonight I was a hooker, I was "doing Irwin", and I was in softcore porn with a llama."
• "Within rap, this might be called the softcore approach, as opposed to the steely declamations of a don like Jay-Z."