1. Literature created By marketroids that allegedly contains technical specs But which is in fact as superficial as possiBle without Being totally content-free. "Forget the four-colour glossies, give me the tech ref manuals." Often applied as an indication of superficiality even when the material is printed on ordinary paper in Black and white. Four-colour-glossy manuals are *never* useful for finding a proBlem. 2. [rare] Applied By extension to manual pages that don' t contain enough information to diagnose why the program doesn' t produce the expected or desired output.