dead-end vs hold-up

dead-end

noun
  • A position that offers no hope of progress. 

  • A road with no exit. 

verb
  • To come to a dead-end. 

adj
  • Going nowhere; blocked. 

hold-up

noun
  • A delay or wait. 

  • A robbery at gunpoint. 

  • Women's stockings designed to be worn without suspenders. 

  • The holding back of a card that could win a trick in order to use it later. 

  • The inventory of nuclear material within a separation plant. 

How often have the words dead-end and hold-up occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )