pluck vs trip

pluck

noun
  • An instance of plucking or pulling sharply. 

  • Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence. 

  • The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals. 

  • Cheap wine. 

verb
  • To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation. 

  • To pull something sharply; to pull something out 

  • To pull or twitch sharply. 

  • To remove feathers from a bird. 

  • To play a string instrument pizzicato. 

  • To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc. 

  • Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing. 

trip

noun
  • The act of tripping someone, or causing them to lose their footing. 

  • A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip. 

  • A journey; an excursion or jaunt. 

  • A stumble or misstep. 

  • A trip-switch or cut-out. 

  • Intense involvement in or enjoyment of a condition. 

  • A flock of wigeons. 

  • A period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations. 

  • A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward. 

  • A mechanical cutout device. 

  • A faux pas, a social error. 

verb
  • To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free. 

  • To fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's foot 

  • To activate or set in motion, as in the activation of a trap, explosive, or switch. 

  • To be activated, as by a signal or an event 

  • To cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble by knocking their feet from under them. 

  • To become unreasonably upset, especially over something unimportant; to cause a scene or a disruption. 

  • To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it. 

  • To be guilty of a misstep or mistake; to commit an offence against morality, propriety, etc 

  • To experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consuming psychoactive drugs. 

  • To journey, to make a trip. 

adj
  • Of or relating to trips (three of a kind). 

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