roper vs stooge

roper

noun
  • An undercover informer. 

  • One who ropes goods; a packer. 

  • Synonym of outside man (“accomplice who locates a mark to be swindled by a confidence trickster”) 

  • Any of a variety of monsters with tentacles that they use to capture victims. 

  • A person hired by a gambling establishment to locate potential customers and bring them in. 

stooge

noun
  • A secret informant for police. 

  • A magician's assistant who pretends to be a member of the audience. 

  • One who knowingly allows himself or herself to be used for another's profit; a dupe. 

  • A confederate; a person who is secretly working for the researcher, unknown to the study participant. 

  • A straight man. 

verb
  • To act as a straight man. 

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