armed robbery vs blag

armed robbery

noun
  • An theft where the thieves are carrying weapons. 

blag

noun
  • An armed robbery. 

  • A means of obtaining something by trick or deception. 

adj
  • Fake, not genuine. 

verb
  • To obtain (something) for free, particularly by guile or persuasion. 

  • To obtain confidential information by impersonation or other deception. 

  • To pick up someone. 

  • To deceive; to perpetrate a hoax on. 

  • To obtain something desired, or avoid an undesired outcome, through luck or improvisation; To fluke or get away with something; To wing it. 

  • To inveigle by persuasion. 

intj
  • An onomatopoeia for the sound of a falling strike. 

How often have the words armed robbery and blag occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )