[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a narrow strip of unleavened egg dough that has been rolled thin and dried, boiled, and served alone or in soups, casseroles, etc.; a ribbon-shaped pasta."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["Slang.the head.the mind.", "the head.", "the mind.", "a fool or simpleton."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to improvise a musical passage in a casual manner, especially as a warm-up exercise.", "Informal.to play; toy :to noodle with numbers as a hobby.to improvise, experiment, or think creatively:The writers noodled for a week and came up with a better idea for the ad campaign.", "to play; toy :to noodle with numbers as a hobby.", "to improvise, experiment, or think creatively:The writers noodled for a week and came up with a better idea for the ad campaign."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["Informal.to manipulate or tamper with:She denied that she had noodled the statistics to get a favorable result.to make or devise freely as an exercise or experiment (sometimes followed byup):The architects noodled up a model of a solar house.", "to manipulate or tamper with:She denied that she had noodled the statistics to get a favorable result.", "to make or devise freely as an exercise or experiment (sometimes followed byup):The architects noodled up a model of a solar house."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb phrase", "List Items": ["Informal.to play, experiment, or improvise."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with or without object)", "List Items": ["to catch fish, especially catfish, with only one’s bare hands:We watched him noodle a 62-pound flathead catfish.Their video on how to noodle for some pretty monstrous catfish includes footage from several rivers in Oklahoma."]}]