touring; road show; being on the road
Refers to entertainers, theatrical troupes, or performers traveling from place to place for shows, often with a slightly rough, grassroots connotation.
Young comedians hone their skills by touring small venues.
The theater company is touring all over the country.
local hoodlum; small-time thug
Slang for a petty criminal or troublemaker who operates locally, often with a rough, itinerant image. Less common than the touring sense.
That area has become a hangout for local hoodlums.
Most common spelling; ドサ is katakana, 回り is kanji.
Hiragana variant of the first part; less common but still used.
Uses the older kanji 廻 for 回; seen in older or stylized contexts.
Entertainment jargon formed from ドサ, itself commonly explained as a reversal of 佐渡 and subsequently generalized to provincial districts, plus 回り “touring.”