bird dog vs look up

bird dog

verb
  • To seek out. 

  • A multiservice tactical brevity code requesting configuration of sensors. 

  • To watch closely. 

noun
  • A dog, especially a pointer, used in shooting to retrieve the dead birds. 

  • A tout. 

  • A person who seeks out real estate investment opportunities in exchange for a fee. 

  • A person who tries to steal someone else's romantic partner 

  • A radar detector (for detecting police speed traps). 

  • A hyperextension exercise performed lying on the knees, with one arm and the opposite leg lifted. 

look up

verb
  • To obtain, or seek to obtain, information about something. 

  • To reconnect or meet with someone that one used to know. 

  • To obtain information about something from a reference book. 

  • To have better prospects. 

  • To enter a query into a database or search engine. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see look, up. 

How often have the words bird dog and look up occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )