careen vs jitterbug

careen

verb
  • To lurch or sway violently from side to side. 

  • To tilt on one side. 

  • To tilt or lean while in motion. 

  • To career, to move rapidly straight ahead, to rush carelessly. 

  • To move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way. 

  • To heave a ship down on one side so as to expose the other, in order to clean it of barnacles and weed, or to repair it below the water line. 

noun
  • The position of a ship laid on one side. 

jitterbug

verb
  • To dance the jitterbug. 

noun
  • An uptempo jazz or swing dance which embellishes on the two-step pattern and frequently incorporates acrobatic style swing steps. 

  • A jazz musician or aficionado. 

  • Synonym of diddley bow (“type of stringed instrument”) 

  • A nervous or jittery person. 

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