nick vs razor

nick

verb
  • To make a cut at the side of the face. 

  • To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way. 

  • To make ragged or uneven, as by cutting nicks or notches in; to deface, to mar. 

  • To steal. 

  • To arrest. 

  • To make a crosscut or cuts on the underside of (the tail of a horse, in order to make the animal carry it higher). 

noun
  • The point where the wall of the court meets the floor. 

  • One of the single-stranded DNA segments produced during nick translation. 

  • Often in the expressions in bad nick and in good nick: condition, state. 

  • A police station or prison. 

  • A small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch. 

razor

verb
  • To shave with a razor. 

noun
  • The sharp tusk of a wild boar. 

  • A keen-edged knife of peculiar shape, used in shaving the hair from the face or other parts of the body. 

  • Any tool or instrument designed for shaving. 

  • A conceptual device that allows one to shave away unlikely explanations for a phenomenon. 

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