nick vs pinch off

nick

verb
  • To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way. 

  • To make a cut at the side of the face. 

  • To make ragged or uneven, as by cutting nicks or notches in; to deface, to mar. 

  • To steal. 

  • To arrest. 

  • To make a crosscut or cuts on the underside of (the tail of a horse, in order to make the animal carry it higher). 

noun
  • The point where the wall of the court meets the floor. 

  • One of the single-stranded DNA segments produced during nick translation. 

  • Often in the expressions in bad nick and in good nick: condition, state. 

  • A police station or prison. 

  • A small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch. 

pinch off

verb
  • To separate (something) from something else, using a pinching motion. 

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