Rough Trade

Rough Trade may refer to:

  • Rough Trade Records, a record label
  • Rough Trade (shops), linked but independent London record stores
  • Rough Trade (band), a Canadian new wave rock band
  • Rough Trade (American Dad!), an episode of American Dad!
  • Rough Trade, a slang term for a masculine working class man who has sex with men (sometimes as a male prostitute)


Famous quotes containing the words rough and/or trade:

    “What we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.
    I am my brother’s keeper, and he’s sleeping pretty rough these days.”
    —Derek, Archbishop Worlock (b. 1920)

    “a highly respectable gondolier,
    Who promised the Royal babe to rear
    And teach him the trade of a timoneer
    With his own beloved brattling.”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)