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:

    “Graves at my command
    Have waked their sleepers, oped, and let ‘em forth
    By my so potent art. But this rough magic
    I here abjure.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “I doubt if men ever made a trade of heroism. In the days of Achilles, even, they delighted in big barns, and perchance in pressed hay, and he who possessed the most valuable team was the best fellow.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)