four-color glossies: n. 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-color 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-color-glossy manuals are _never_ useful for solving 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.
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