Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Aus./US) something, occas. someone disgusting or deplorable; orig. boxing use, now usu. in context of a theatrical or movie performance or other artistic production.

1933		Boston Globe (MA) 16 Jan. 7/3: Against a counter-puncher like himself he would make a stinkeroo of a fight.
1936		Pittsburgh Press (PA) 9 Mar. 28/1: Mr Jake Mintz [...] has pulled many a stinkeroo since becoming a boxing promoter.
1938		D. Runyon ‘Undertaker Song’ in Runyon on Broadway (1954) 331: It is a stinkeroo, because there is little skill and no science whatever in it.
1939		Pittsburgh Courier (PA) 25 Nov. 7/1: The stark memory of it [i.e. a piece of journalism] forever rising up to remind me that I can can be a stinkeroo too.
1946		Statesville Record (NC) 20 June1/6: Donald O’Toole [...] called the pugilistic contest a stinkeroo.
1949		R. Park Poor Man’s Orange 32: Do you ever go into a posh private hospital [...] with your tribe of pop-eyed young louts and let them have a squint at one of them pampered poodles of women? Nice stinkeroo if you did, eh?
1959		K. Amis letter 17 Dec. in Leader (2000) 567: It strikes me as somewhat of a stinkeroo.
1963–74		B. Humphries Barry McKenzie [comic strip] in Complete Barry McKenzie (1988) 41: Whenever we had a stinkeroo of a day we used to go down to the beach.
1971		Dly News (NY) 24 Dec. 40/4: Your ‘stinkeroo’ editorial on cirty plans to acquire Yankee Stadium was a stinkeroo itself.
1988		Palm Beach Post (FL) 2 Oct. 3E/1: ‘The Last Temptation’ is the worst movie I ever watched. What a stinkeroo!
1993		Pittsburgh Post-Gaz. (PA) 28 May 21 May : Cagney [...] shuts down [...] rather than be associated with a stinkeroo it [i.e. an unpopular show] .
2002		Sun. Tribune Sport 24 Feb. 7/3: The worst written lyeric in the Irish literary canon unil subceded by [...] Rushdie’s all-time stinkeroo.
2004		R.G. Barrett Rosa Marie’s Baby (2013) [ebook] Les couldn’t work out [...] why a good actor like Tim Robbins would take a part in such a stinkerrollah.
2007		Courier-Post (Camden, NJ) 25 Sept. 53/1: Mega-bombs [...] [TV] shows I enjoyed but which [...] can only be described as stinkeroos .
2016		(ref. to 1939) Edmonton Jrnl (Alberta) 20 Feb. 41/1: Not all the reviews of time were raves, The New Yorker called it [i.e. The Wizard of Oz movie] , memorably, ‘a stinkeroo’.