flop vs now

flop

intj
  • Indicating the sound of something flopping. 

adv
  • With a flopping sound. 

  • Right, squarely, flat-out. 

verb
  • To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer) 

  • To stay, sleep or live in a place. 

  • To fall heavily due to lack of energy. 

  • To strike about with something broad and flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; to flap. 

  • To have (a hand) using the community cards dealt on the flop. 

  • To cause to drop heavily. 

  • To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.). 

  • To flip; to reverse (an image). 

noun
  • The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game. 

  • A ponded package of dung, as in a cow-flop. 

  • An incident of a certain type of fall; a plopping down. 

  • A flophouse. 

  • A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry. 

  • One floating-point operation per second, a unit of measure of processor speed. 

now

intj
  • Indicates a signal to begin. 

adj
  • Fashionable; popular; up to date; current. 

  • Present; current. 

noun
  • The state of not paying attention to the future or the past. 

  • The present time. 

  • A particular instant in time, as perceived at that instant. 

conj
  • Since, because, in light of the fact; often with that. 

adv
  • Used to indicate a context of urgency. 

  • Sometimes; occasionally. 

  • Used to address a switching side, or sharp change in attitude from before. (In this usage, now is usually emphasized). 

  • At the present time. 

  • Used to introduce a point, a qualification of what has previously been said, a remonstration or a rebuke. 

  • At the time reached within a narration. 

  • Differently from the immediate past; differently from a more remote past or a possible future; differently from all other times. 

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