lurch vs perm

lurch

noun
  • A double score in cribbage for the winner when his/her adversary has not yet pegged his/her 31st hole. 

  • A sudden or unsteady movement. 

  • An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables. 

verb
  • To defeat in the game of cribbage with a lurch (double score as explained under noun entry). 

  • To make such a sudden, unsteady movement. 

perm

noun
  • A combination of outcomes (not a permutation) that a gambler bets on in the football pools. 

  • Permission 

  • A permutation. 

verb
  • To give hair a perm, using heat, chemicals etc. 

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