lay up vs snowball

lay up

verb
  • To make a layup with (a basketball) 

  • To go out of active service. 

  • To deliberately leave the ball further than necessary from the hole, so as to secure an easier succeeding shot. 

  • To take out of active service. 

  • To store; to put by. 

  • To disable or incapacitate; to confine to bed. 

snowball

verb
  • To pelt with snowballs; to throw snowballs at. 

  • To receive ejaculated semen in one's mouth, and to then pass it back and forth between one’s mouth and another person’s mouth. 

  • To rapidly grow out of proportion or control. 

  • To play at throwing snowballs. 

noun
  • A cocktail made from lemonade and advocaat. 

  • A ball of snow, usually one made in the hand and thrown for amusement in a snowball fight; also a larger ball of snow made by rolling a snowball around in snow that sticks to it and increases its diameter. 

  • A sex act involving passing ejaculated semen from one person's mouth to another's. 

  • A type of ice dessert. 

  • A type of cake. 

  • Something that snowballs (grows rapidly out of control). 

adj
  • Of something with rapid growth, often uncontrolled. Compare snowball effect. 

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