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:

    “We approached the Indian Island through the narrow strait called “Cook.” He said, “I ‘xpect we take in some water there, river so high,—never see it so high at this season. Very rough water there, but short; swamp steamboat once. Don’t paddle till I tell you, then you paddle right along.” It was a very short rapid. When we were in the midst of it he shouted “paddle,” and we shot through without taking in a drop.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Though in the trade of war I have slain men,
    Yet do I hold it very stuff o’ the conscience
    To do no contrived murder. I lack iniquity
    Sometimes to do me service.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)