Heartless perverse pole dancing individuals (6)
I believe the answer is:
people
'individuals' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being plural nouns.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'heartless perverse pole dancing' is the wordplay.
'heartless' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters).
'dancing' indicates an anagram.
'perverse' with its middle removed is 'pe'.
'pole' is an anagram of 'ople'.
'pe'+'ople'='PEOPLE'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for people that I've seen before include "Humans in general" , "Persons in general" , "country folk" , "Folk; citizens" , "Population" .)