cop vs reap

cop

verb
  • To earn by bad behavior. 

  • To steal. 

  • To adopt. 

  • To obtain, to purchase (as in drugs), to get hold of, to take. 

  • To admit, especially to a crime or wrongdoing. 

  • Of a pimp: to recruit a prostitute into the stable. 

  • To (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing. 

  • To see and record a railway locomotive for the first time. 

noun
  • The ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine. 

  • A police officer or prison guard. 

  • A roughly dome-shaped piece of armor, especially one covering the shoulder, the elbow, or the knee. 

  • A tube or quill upon which silk is wound. 

  • A merlon. 

reap

verb
  • To obtain or receive as a reward, in a good or a bad sense. 

  • To terminate a child process that has previously exited, thereby removing it from the process table. 

  • To gather (e.g. a harvest) by cutting. 

  • To cut (for example a grain) with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine 

noun
  • A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut. 

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