careen vs zig

careen

verb
  • To lurch or sway violently from side to side. 

  • To tilt on one side. 

  • To tilt or lean while in motion. 

  • To career, to move rapidly straight ahead, to rush carelessly. 

  • To move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way. 

  • To heave a ship down on one side so as to expose the other, in order to clean it of barnacles and weed, or to repair it below the water line. 

noun
  • The position of a ship laid on one side. 

zig

verb
  • To make such a turn. 

noun
  • A sudden or sharp turn or change of direction. 

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