get at vs vamper

get at

verb
  • To persuade by intimidation, to tamper with. 

  • To manage to gain access to. 

  • To understand or ascertain by investigation. 

  • To begin working on or dealing with. 

  • To contact someone. 

  • To attack verbally or physically; to annoy, bother. 

  • To mean, signify. 

vamper

verb
  • To swagger; to make an ostentatious show. 

noun
  • One who vamps; one who creates or repairs by piecing old things together; a cobbler. 

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