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:

    “Such is the fate of simple Bard,
    On life’s rough ocean luckless starr’d:”
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)

    “Unless we do more than simply learn the trade of our time, we are but apprentices, and not yet masters of the art of life.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)