hand off vs retrieve

hand off

verb
  • to pass (the ball) to a teammate 

  • to pass or transfer. 

retrieve

verb
  • To make a difficult but successful return of the ball. 

  • To remember or recall something. 

  • To regain or get back something. 

  • To fetch and bring in game. 

  • To salvage something 

  • To fetch and bring in game systematically. 

  • To fetch or carry back something, especially (computing) a file or data record. 

  • To rescue (a creature). 

  • To remedy or rectify something. 

  • To fetch or carry back systematically, notably as a game. 

noun
  • The return of a difficult ball 

  • A retrieval 

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