no-show vs stray

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. 

stray

noun
  • One who is lost, literally or figuratively. 

  • An area of common land for use by domestic animals generally. 

  • Any domestic animal that has no enclosure nor proper place and company, but that instead wanders at large or is lost; an estray. 

  • An instance of atmospheric interference. 

  • An act of wandering off or going astray. 

adj
  • Having gone astray; strayed; wandering 

  • In the wrong place; misplaced. 

verb
  • To wander from company or outside proper limits; to rove or roam at large; to go astray. 

  • To wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err. 

  • To cause to stray; lead astray. 

  • To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way. 

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