break-off vs semicolon

break-off

noun

  • A break, discontinuance, or interruption 

  • That which breaks off, or is broken off 

  • The first shot in a game of snooker or other cue-game 

verb

  • To play the first shot in a game of snooker 

semicolon

noun

  • The punctuation mark ;. 

How often have the words break-off and semicolon occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )