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:
“Women of fashion and character—I do not mean absolutely unblemished—are a necessary ingredient in the composition of good company; the attention which they require, and which is always paid them by well-bred men, keeps up politeness, and gives a habit of good-breeding; whereas men, when they live together without the lenitive of women in company, are apt to grow careless, negligent, and rough among one another.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“I have no doubt that they lived pretty much the same sort of life in the Homeric age, for men have always thought more of eating than of fighting; then, as now, their minds ran chiefly on the “hot bread and sweet cakes;” and the fur and lumber trade is an old story to Asia and Europe.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)