surprise vs whiplash

surprise

noun
  • The feeling that something unexpected has happened. 

  • Something unexpected. 

verb
  • To attack unexpectedly. 

  • To take unawares. 

  • To do something to (a person) that they are not expecting, as a surprise. 

  • To cause (someone) to feel unusually alarmed or delighted by something unexpected. 

  • To undergo or witness something unexpected. 

  • To cause surprise. 

whiplash

noun
  • An abrupt and unexpected change, or the resulting feeling of shock. 

  • The lash of a whip. 

  • An injury to the upper spine connected to a violent jerk of the head in either a backward or forward or side to side direction, resembling the motion of a whip. 

verb
  • To jerk back and forth; to buffet. 

  • To lash as if with a whip. 

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