dodge vs racket

dodge

noun
  • A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.) 

  • An act of dodging. 

  • A line of work. 

adj
  • Dodgy. 

verb
  • To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place. 

  • To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way. 

  • To decrease the exposure for certain areas of an image in order to make them darker (compare burn). 

  • To avoid; to sidestep. 

racket

noun
  • An illegal scheme for profit; a fraud or swindle; or both coinstantiated. 

  • An implement with a handle connected to a round frame strung with wire, sinew, or plastic cords, and used to hit a ball, such as in tennis or a birdie in badminton. 

  • A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to allow walking on marshy or soft ground. 

  • A loud noise. 

  • A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood. 

verb
  • To strike with, or as if with, a racket. 

  • To make a clattering noise. 

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