tang vs zip

tang

noun
  • A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang. 

  • A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself. 

  • A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part. 

  • Any of a group of saltwater fish from the family Acanthuridae, especially the genus Zebrasoma. 

  • sexual intercourse with a woman 

  • knotted wrack, Ascophyllum nodosum (coarse blackish seaweed) 

  • The vagina. 

  • A refreshingly sharp aroma or flavor. 

  • The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened. 

  • A shuffleboard paddle. 

  • A sharp, specific flavor or tinge. 

  • The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock. 

  • Anything resembling a tongue in form or position such as the tongue of a buckle. 

  • The part of a knife, fork, file, or other small instrument, which is inserted into the handle. 

verb
  • To make a ringing sound; to ring. 

zip

noun
  • The high-pitched sound of a small object moving rapidly through air. 

  • An ounce of marijuana. 

  • Synonym of convolution (“type of mapping function”) 

  • Zero; nothing. 

  • A zip fastener. 

  • Energy; vigor; vim. 

  • A trip on a zipline. 

  • A zip file. 

intj
  • Imitative of high-pitched sound of a small object moving rapidly through air. 

verb
  • To move rapidly (in a specified direction or to a specified place) with a high-pitched sound. 

  • To close as if with a zip fastener. 

  • To subject to the convolution mapping function. 

  • To make (something) move quickly 

  • To compress (one or more computer files) into a single and often smaller file, especially one in the ZIP format. 

  • To move in haste (in a specified direction or to a specified place). 

  • To travel on a zipline. 

  • To close with a zip fastener. 

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