180 vs U-turn

180

noun
  • A complete change of direction or opinion. 

  • The friendly welcome was a 180 from what she had been expecting 

  • The exact opposite. 

  • An instance of spinning 180 degrees, so that one is facing in the opposite direction. 

U-turn

noun
  • A reversal of policy; an about-face, a backflip. 

  • A turn in a vehicle carried out by driving in a semicircle in order to travel in the opposite direction. 

verb
  • To shift from one opinion or decision to its opposite. 

  • To turn a vehicle in a semicircle so as to face the opposite direction. 

How often have the words 180 and U-turn occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )