[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a short and witty or sarcastic saying or writing.", "Journalism.a short news story, often used as a filler.", "a small firework, consisting of a tube or ball filled with powder, that burns with a hissing noise terminated usually by a slight explosion.", "a firecracker broken in the middle so that it burns with a hissing noise but does not explode.", "Australian.a coward.", "an electric, pyrotechnic device for firing the igniter of a rocket engine, especially a solid-propellant engine.", "Obsolete.a mean or paltry fellow."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to write squibs.", "to shoot a squib.", "to explode with a small, sharp sound.", "to move swiftly and irregularly.", "Australian.to be afraid.to flee; escape.", "to be afraid.", "to flee; escape."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to assail in squibs or lampoons.", "to , shoot, or utilize as a squib."]}]