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:

    “The last and greatest Herald of Heaven’s King,
    Girt with rough skins, hies to the deserts wild,
    Among that savage brood the woods forth bring,
    Which he than man more harmless found and mild.”
    —William Drummond, of Hawthornden (1585–1649)

    “I sincerely hope that the incoming Congress will be alive, as it should be, to the importance of our foreign trade and of encouraging it in every way feasible. The possibility of increasing this trade in the Orient, in the Philippines, and in South America is known to everyone who has given the matter attention.”
    —William Howard Taft (1857–1930)