zed vs zombie

zed

noun
  • A zombie. 

  • Something Z-shaped. 

  • The name of the Latin-script letter Z. 

  • Sleep. 

verb
  • To sleep or nap. (Compare zzz, catch some z's.) 

  • To zigzag; to move with sharp alternating turns. 

zombie

noun
  • A person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his/her own. 

  • A cocktail of rum and fruit juices. 

  • A human being in a state of extreme mental exhaustion. 

  • Marijuana, or similar drugs. 

  • A conscripted member of the Canadian military during World War II who was assigned to home defence rather than to combat in Europe. 

  • A hypothetical being that is indistinguishable from a normal human being except in that it lacks conscious experience, qualia, or sentience. 

  • An apathetic or slow-witted person. 

  • A process or task which has terminated but has not been removed from the list of processes, typically because it has an unresponsive parent process. 

  • An information worker who has signed a nondisclosure agreement. 

  • A computer affected by malware which causes it to do whatever the attacker wants it to do without the user's knowledge. 

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