no-show vs poor

no-show

noun
  • A person or group that does not show up. 

  • An absence; failure to show up or to make a scheduled appearance, especially at a hotel or a place of employment. 

verb
  • To fail to show up for something. 

poor

noun
  • A poor person. 

  • The poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society. 

verb
  • Synonym of impoverish, to make poor. 

adj
  • Deficient in a specified way. 

  • Of low quality. 

  • Inadequate, insufficient. 

  • Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek. 

  • Used to express pity. 

  • With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them. 

How often have the words no-show and poor occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )