contest vs free-for-all

contest

noun
  • A competition. 

  • Controversy; debate. 

  • Struggle for superiority; combat. 

verb
  • To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend. 

  • To call into question; to oppose. 

  • To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist, as a claim, by course of law. 

  • To contend. 

free-for-all

noun
  • Deathmatch, sometimes specifically one in which every player is pitted against all the others. 

  • Chaos; a chaotic situation lacking rules or control. 

adj
  • Open to anyone and with no or few rules. 

How often have the words contest and free-for-all occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )