charabanc vs set up

charabanc

verb
  • To travel or convey by charabanc. 

noun
  • A derisive term for a car, bus, train or other vehicle that is poor quality, slow or overcrowded. 

  • A horse-drawn, and then later, motorized omnibus with open sides, and often, no roof. 

set up

verb
  • To arrange for an outcome; to tamper or rig. 

  • To trick someone in order to make them do something. 

  • To cause to happen. 

  • To level to rise in one part of a body of water, especially a shallow one, because of a storm surge caused by persistent wind. 

  • To profess openly; to make pretensions. 

  • To matchmake; to arrange a date between two people. 

  • To provide the money or other support that someone needs for an important task or activity. 

  • To arrange logically. 

  • To cause to take flight; to flush into the air. 

  • To establish someone in a business or position. 

  • To gel or harden. 

  • To trap or ensnare. 

  • To ready something for use. 

  • To create a goalscoring opportunity (for). 

  • To make (someone) proud or conceited (often in passive). 

  • To ready for use. 

  • To found; to start (a business, scheme) 

  • To deceive an opponent and capitalize on their reactions with a certain technique or maneuver. 

adj
  • In a position to function; ready. 

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