bunk vs mulga wire

bunk

noun
  • Bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense. 

  • A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night. 

  • A cot. 

  • A specimen of a recreational drug with insufficient active ingredient. 

  • A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers. 

  • A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other. 

  • One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers. 

verb
  • To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk off'). 

  • To occupy a bunk. 

  • To provide a bunk. 

  • To depart; scram. 

adj
  • Defective, broken, not functioning properly. 

mulga wire

noun
  • A message or story transmitted through such an informal network, especially one containing false information. 

  • A system for long-distance communication used by Aboriginal Australians, chiefly using smoke signals; also, a message or signal sent using such a system. 

  • An informal gossip network, especially in a rural area such as the outback; also, a component in the network (either a person or an imagined wire). 

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