dead-end vs snooker

dead-end

verb
  • To come to a dead-end. 

noun
  • A road with no exit. 

  • A position that offers no hope of progress. 

adj
  • Going nowhere; blocked. 

snooker

verb
  • To fool or bamboozle. 

  • To play the game of snooker. 

  • To put (someone) in a difficult situation. 

  • To become or cause to become inebriated. 

  • To place the cue ball in such a position that (the opponent) cannot directly hit the required ball with it. 

noun
  • A cue sport, popular in the UK and other Commonwealth of Nations countries. 

  • The situation where the cue ball is in such a position that the opponent cannot directly hit a legal ball with it. 

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