Claw (disambiguation)
# Claw (disambiguation)

A claw is a sharp growth at the end of a toe or finger.

Claw or Claws may also refer to:

## Arts, entertainment, and media

### 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
* The Claw, the main villain in the animated series Karate Kommandos

### Films

* Claws (film), a 1977 horror film
* The Claw (1927), a movie directed by Sidney Olcott

### Games

* Claw (computer game), a 1997 computer game from Monolith Productions
* Claw crane, a type of arcade game known as a merchandiser
* Claw, a name frequently given to Street Fighter character Vega

### 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, Gospel Claws album
* Gospel Claws, an indie rock group

### Television

* Claws (TV series), a 2017 American TV series
* "Claws", a 1976 episode of the television show The Bionic Woman
* "Claws", an episode of the American animated television series Johnny Bravo

### Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* Claw (juggling) a ball juggling trick
* Claws (play), a 1916 play by Sophie Treadwell

## Implements

* 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

## Organizations

* Baltimore Claws, a short-lived American basketball team
* Centre for Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS), India
* Clothing, Laundry and Allied Workers Union of Aotearoa, a trade union in New Zealand
* Comics Literacy Awareness ("CLAw"), a UK literacy charity

## 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
