careen vs jump about

careen

verb
  • To move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way. 

  • To tilt on one side. 

  • To tilt or lean while in motion. 

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

  • To lurch or sway violently from side to side. 

  • 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. 

jump about

verb
  • To move erratically by jumping. 

  • To move from side to side, or fidget annoyingly, usually as a result of being nervous. 

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