El Ropo, n. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

El Ropo n.

also El Ropo Stinkadoro, El Stinko

[cod Sp. brandname; el- pfx; note Rudyard Kipling, Stalky & Co. (1899), ‘pomposo stinkadoro, a large, malodorous cigar’]

(US) a cheap, strong cigar.

1940		‘Smokers’ Sl.’ in AS XV:3 Oct. 335/2: A cigar is rope, a stogie, [...] or el ropo.
1962		T. Berger Reinhart in Love (1963) 44: Reinhart, choking on El Ropo, heard him imperfectly.
1965–70		in DARE.
1997		G.D. Rhodes Lugosi x: In addition to acting as a pallbearer, I tucked some of his ‘El-Stinko, El-Ropo’ cigars into his pocket.
2004		D. Thomas Dark Highway 38: [...] his gnarly shaft, which was reminding Fran of one of those twisted El Ropo Mexican cigars.