Claw (disambiguation)

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

• 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
• Claw, a 1994 novel by Ken Eulo
• 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 Beast Quest novel 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)

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 $K_{1,3}$
• 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)