title: Claw (disambiguation)
text: # 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
  