Definition of four-color glossies
four-color glossies
noun
- Literature created by marketroids that allegedly contains technical specs but which is in fact as superficial as possible without being totally content-free. Often applied as an indication of superficiality even when the material is printed on ordinary paper in black and white.
Forget the four-color glossies, give me the tech reference manuals.
More words meaning: computer slang
- 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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