hambone vs stooge

hambone

noun
  • A ham; an eager or inferior performer 

  • Four consecutive strikes. 

  • A certain type of dance that involves making noise with the body, especially by slapping parts of the body with one's hands 

  • The bone at the center of a ham 

verb
  • To dance the hambone. 

stooge

noun
  • One who knowingly allows himself or herself to be used for another's profit; a dupe. 

  • A magician's assistant who pretends to be a member of the audience. 

  • A confederate; a person who is secretly working for the researcher, unknown to the study participant. 

  • A straight man. 

  • A secret informant for police. 

verb
  • To act as a straight man. 

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