assist vs front man

assist

noun
  • A decisive pass made to the goal scorer 

  • A helpful action or an act of giving. 

  • A defensive play, allowing a teammate to record a putout. 

verb
  • To help. 

  • To make a pass that leads directly towards scoring. 

  • To help compensate for what is missing with the help of a medical technique or therapy. 

front man

noun
  • striker, attacker, forward. 

  • A person acting as the public face of some other, covert group. 

  • The lead singer in a musical group. 

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