career vs zap

career

adj
  • Synonym of serial (“doing something repeatedly or regularly as part of one's lifestyle or career”) 

verb
  • To move rapidly straight ahead, especially in an uncontrolled way. 

noun
  • General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part of it. 

  • One's calling in life; a person's occupation; one's profession. 

  • A jouster's path during a joust. 

  • The flight of a hawk. 

zap

verb
  • To damage (especially electronics) with electrostatic discharge. 

  • To use a remote control to repeatedly change channels on a television. 

  • To further energize or charge (magnetic material). 

  • To make a zap sound. 

  • To strike (something or someone) with electricity or energy, as by shooting. 

  • To heat (something) in a microwave oven. 

  • To photocopy. 

  • To delete or discard (electronic media). 

  • To kill; to eliminate. 

noun
  • An electric shock. 

  • A sound made by a sudden release of electricity or some similar energy. 

  • The act of heating something in a microwave oven. 

  • A raucous public demonstration designed to embarrass a public figure or celebrity as a form of political activism. 

intj
  • Representing the sound or action of a zap. 

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