lurch vs pitch and toss

lurch

noun
  • An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables. 

  • A sudden or unsteady movement. 

  • A double score in cribbage for the winner when his/her adversary has not yet pegged his/her 31st hole. 

verb
  • To defeat in the game of cribbage with a lurch (double score as explained under noun entry). 

  • To make such a sudden, unsteady movement. 

pitch and toss

noun
  • A game played by tossing a coin and calling heads or tails. 

  • A game in which coins are thrown at a mark, the person who throws nearest having the right of tossing all the coins, and keeping those which come down head uppermost. 

  • Careless treatment of something, or trusting to luck about it. 

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