beating vs slapping

beating

noun
  • The action by which someone or something is beaten. 

  • A heavy defeat or setback. 

  • The pulsation of the heart. 

slapping

noun
  • The act of giving a slap or slaps 

  • The slap bass technique 

adj
  • Very large; whopping. 

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