lineup vs mess

lineup

noun
  • Collectively, the members of a team. 

  • a physical or photographic queue of people allegedly involved in a crime, allowing a witness to identify them 

  • The batting order. 

  • The members of a music group at any one time. 

  • A line of people or vehicles, in which the individual at the front end is dealt with first, the one behind is dealt with next, and so on, and in which newcomers join at the end; a queue. 

  • The acts performing at a concert or music festival. 

mess

noun
  • A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common, especially military personnel who eat at the same table. 

  • A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding. 

  • A building or room in which mess is eaten. 

  • The milk given by a cow at one milking. 

  • A large quantity or number. 

  • Excrement. 

  • A person in a state of (especially emotional) turmoil or disarray; an emotional wreck. 

  • A dessert of fruit and cream, similar to a fool. 

  • A group of iguanas. 

  • A set of four (from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner). 

verb
  • To eat (with others). 

  • To make soiled by ejaculating. 

  • To screw around with, to bother, to be annoying to. 

  • To supply with a mess. 

  • To belong to a mess. 

  • To make soiled by defecating. 

  • To take meals with a mess. 

  • To throw into disorder or to ruin. 

  • To interfere. 

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