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.