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  • 1claw one's way back —    In a situation which has deteriorated, if you claw your way back, you gradually regain your former position through determination, energy and hard work.     After a serious accident, the Olympic champion clawed his way back to the top, to the… …

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  • 2claw — ► NOUN 1) a curved, pointed horny nail on each digit of the foot in birds, lizards, and some mammals. 2) the pincer of a crab, scorpion, or other arthropod. ► VERB 1) scratch or tear at with the claws or fingernails. 2) (claw away) try… …

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  • 3claw — I n. 1) to retract one s claws (cats retract their claws) 2) sharp claws 3) nonretractile; retractile claws II v. (d; tr.) to claw to (to claw one s way to the top) * * * [klɔː] retractile claws nonretractile sharp claws to retract one s claws… …

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  • 4Claw crane — Claw game redirects here. For the computer game, see Claw (computer game). Skill Crane redirects here. For the SpongeBob SquarePants episode, see SpongeBob SquarePants (season 4). The glass front of a claw crane A claw crane (also called a… …

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  • 5Claw (video game) — Claw Developer(s) Takarajimasha Publisher(s) Monolith Productions, Wizard Works Engin …

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  • 6claw — [klɔː ǁ klɒː] verb claw back phrasal verb 1. [transitive] claw something → back FINANCE if a company claws back shares, it takes back new shares that it had offered to its present shareholders, but they do not want to buy, and offers them to… …

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  • 7One Hot Minute tour — Tour by Red Hot Chili Peppers Associated album One Hot Minute Start date September 7, 1995 End date July 26, 1997 Legs …

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  • 8One of Us Is a Traitor — If this infobox is not supposed to have an image, please add |noimage=yes . Publisher DC Comics Publication da …

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  • 9Claw-free graph — A claw In graph theory, an area of mathematics, a claw free graph is a graph that does not have a claw as an induced subgraph. A claw is another name for the complete bipartite graph K1,3 (that is, a star graph with three edges, three leaves, and …

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  • 10claw — clawer, n. clawless, adj. /klaw/, n. 1. a sharp, usually curved, nail on the foot of an animal, as on a cat, dog, or bird. 2. a similar curved process at the end of the leg of an insect. 3. the pincerlike extremity of specific limbs of certain… …

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