barn dance vs thrashing

barn dance

noun
  • A type of set step routine dancing, such as square dance. 

verb
  • To take part in barn dancing. 

thrashing

noun
  • Slam dancing. 

  • A heavy defeat. 

  • Threshing. (of cereal crop, etc) 

  • Action of the verb to thrash. 

  • Excessive paging within virtual storage. 

  • A beating, especially a severe one. 

How often have the words barn dance and thrashing occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )