A claw is a sharp growth at the end of a toe or finger.
Claw or Claws may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment Fictional entities Claw (comics), several unrelated characters C.L.A.W., a fictional weapon in the G.I. Joe universe Claw the Unconquered, a sword and sorcery character from DC Comics Doctor Claw, the main villain of the animated television show Inspector Gadget
Games Claw (computer game), a 1997 computer game from Monolith Productions Claw, a name frequently given to Street Fighter character Vega
Literature Claw, a 1994 novel by Ken Eulo
The Claw (novel), a 1911 novel by Cynthia Stockley The Claw, a 1981 novel by Norah Lofts The Claw, a 1983 novel by Ramsey Campbell The Claw, a 1995 novel in the Point Horror series by Carmen Adams
Claws, a 2003 novel by Will Weaver Claws, a 2006 novel by Dan Greenburg Claw the Giant Monkey, a 2008 novel in the Beast Quest series by Adam Blade
Music "Claw", a song by the British metal band Motörhead from their album Orgasmatron (1986) "Claws" (song), a song by English singer Charli XCX C-L-A-W-S, an album by Gospel Claws
Television Episodes "Claws", Johnny Bravo season 2, episode 4a (1999) "Claws", Odd Job Jack season 3, episode 11 (2006) "Claws", Monster Allergy season 1, episode 15 (2007) "Claws", Natural World series 18, episode 15 (2000) "Claws", The Bionic Woman season 1, episode 5 (1976) "Claws", The Shak season 3, episode 39 (2007) "Claws", Wicked! episode 14 (1999) "Claws", Matlock episode 7 (2024)
Shows Claws (TV series), a 2017 American TV series
Other uses in arts and entertainment Claw (juggling) a ball juggling trick Claws (film), a 1977 American horror-thriller film Claws (play), a 1916 play by Sophie Treadwell
Military Operation Claw, a joint Swedish–American operation, with Norwegian support, at the end of World War II Operation Claw (2019–2020), a cross-border military operation undertaken by the Turkish Armed Forces in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan Region Centre for Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS), an Indian think tank
Science, technology, and mathematics Biology and ecology Chela (organ), a pincerlike organ terminating certain limbs of some arthropods like crabs Claw, in botany, the narrowed, stalk-like, basal part of a petal, sepal, or bract "Claws", the nickname given to the Baryonyx dinosaur find made in a clay pit in Surrey CLAW hypothesis, a feedback loop between the climate and oceanic ecosystems
Other uses in science, technology, and mathematics Claw (graph theory), in mathematics a complete bipartite graph CLAWS (linguistics), a program that performs part-of-speech tagging Claws Mail, a GTK+-based e-mail client and news client for Unix-like systems MSI Claw A1M, a handheld gaming computer released in 2024
Other uses Shawna Ann Claw, Diné politician Baltimore Claws, a short-lived American basketball team Clothing, Laundry and Allied Workers Union of Aotearoa, a trade union in New Zealand Comics Literacy Awareness ("CLAw"), a UK literacy charity
See also The Claw (disambiguation) Claw beaker, a type of drinking vessel used in the Dark Ages in Europe Claw chisel or tool, used for stone carving Claw hammer, a common carpentry tool Claw of Archimedes, a weapon designed by Archimedes to destroy attacking ships Klaw (disambiguation)