assist vs cut up

assist

verb
  • To help compensate for what is missing with the help of a medical technique or therapy. 

  • To help. 

  • To make a pass that leads directly towards scoring. 

noun
  • A decisive pass made to the goal scorer 

  • A helpful action or an act of giving. 

  • A defensive play, allowing a teammate to record a putout. 

cut up

verb
  • To distress mentally or emotionally. 

  • To lacerate; to wound by multiple lacerations; to injure or damage by cutting, or as if by cutting. 

  • To move aggressively in front of another vehicle while driving. 

  • To behave like a clown or jokester (a cut-up); to misbehave; to act in a playful, comical, boisterous, or unruly manner to elicit laughter, attention, etc. 

  • Comprise a particular selection of runners. 

  • To cut into smaller pieces, parts, or sections. 

  • To disintegrate; to break into pieces. 

adj
  • Emotionally upset; mentally distressed. 

  • Muscular and lean. 

  • Wounded with multiple lacerations. 

  • Having been cut into smaller pieces. 

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