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:

    “If a girl’s a stewardess, she might as well forget it after twenty-six. They no longer have compulsory retirement, but the girls get into a rut at that age. A lot of them start showing the rough life they’ve lived.”
    —Beryl Simpson, U.S. employment counselor; former airline reservationist. As quoted in Working, book 2, by Studs Terkel (1973)

    “And trade is art, and art’s philosophy,
    In Paris.”
    —Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)