butcher vs freelance

butcher

noun
  • A brutal or indiscriminate killer. 

  • A look. 

  • A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals). 

verb
  • To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation. 

  • To work as a butcher. 

  • To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market. 

  • To mess up hopelessly; to botch. 

  • To kill brutally. 

freelance

noun
  • A medieval mercenary. 

  • Someone who sells their services to clients without a long-term employment contract. 

adj
  • Of, or relating to a freelance; without employment contract. 

verb
  • To produce or sell services as a freelance. 

  • To work as a freelance. 

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