rough trade

rough trade

1. A masculine working class man who has sex with other men. The term sometimes but not always refers to a prostitute. If you're looking for rough trade, you're not going to find it here. This is a dance club and nothing else.
2. Violent sexual acts or encounters. I don't know why they can't crack down on the advertisements for rough trade in the backs of those seedy newspapers.
See also: rough, trade
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • working girl
  • painted cat
  • alley cat
  • a man's man
  • man's man
  • bulldagger
  • bull-dagger
  • bulldiker
  • bulldyker
References in periodicals archive
There will be tons of people at Rough Trade Tuesday doing just that while your '90s favorites spin all night long.
Two further successful albums, also on Rough Trade showered her with countless more awards and acclaim, but it was her forth album, Hill of Thieves, winning BBC Folk Album of the Year in 2010.
Now she is releasing her debut album Before We Forgot How To Dream on the legendary Rough Trade label.
THE former Rough Trade recording act The Band of Holy Joy return to the region with a gig at Cluny 2 on Friday.
MENACE Beach, the Leeds .outfit headed by Ryan Needham and Liza Violet, will mark the January 19 release of debut album Ratworld with a tour that takes in Nottingham's Rough Trade on January 20 and Birmingham's Hare & Hounds on January 27.
? MENACE Beach, the Leeds outfit headed by Ryan Needham and Liza Violet, will mark the January 19 release of debut album Ratworld with a tour that takes in Nottingham's Rough Trade on January 20 and Birmingham's Hare & Hounds on January 27.
Our third and final installment went down at Brooklyn's Rough Trade Records, where they offered up a selection FADER-curated vinyl and live sets from two artists.
Their shop space Pop Recs Ltd has hosted panel discussions with the likes of Edwyn Collins (Orange Juice), Bob Stanley and Geoff Travis (founder of Rough Trade Records) while also serving as a space for exhibitions of visual art and photography, engaging local artists and musicians...
The local stock market encountered rough trade in early session but recovered later in the day.
Paul Weller will perform a show to just 300 people at Rough Trade East in London.
Up until now Rough Trade Records' Palma Violets have had minimum online presence and no songs recorded.
Finally, the excellent Ifan Dafydd's debut 12 inch, Miranda, is available from Rough Trade. Order your copy today.
Rough Trade is a United Kingdom-based label founded as a do-it-yourself project in 1978.
But politics is a rough trade. You need to find your feet fast.