Claw (disambiguation)

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

Claw or Claws may also refer to:

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

 * The Claw (1918), an American silent film directed by Robert G. Vignola
 * The Claw (1927), an American silent film directed by Sidney Olcott
 * Claws (film), a 1977 American horror-thriller film directed by Richard Bansbach and Robert E. Pearson

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

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, 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" (Johnny Bravo), an episode of the American animated television series Johnny Bravo
 * "Claws", an episode of the Australian animated television series Wicked!
 * "Claws", a season 3 episode of the Canadian animated television series Odd Job Jack
 * "Claws", a 2007 episode of the animated television series Monster Allergy
 * "Claws", a 2000 episode of the British wildlife documentary television series Natural World
 * "Claws", a 2007 episode of the Australian children's television series The Shak

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

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