1. Literature created by ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=marketroid">marketroids that allegedly contains technical specs but which is in fact as superficial as possible without being totally ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=content-free">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.