Usually means: Animal foot with claws, pads.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word paw:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. paw: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. paw: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. paw: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. paw: Collins English Dictionary
  5. paw: Vocabulary.com
  6. Paw, paw: Wordnik
  7. paw: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. PAW, paw: Wiktionary
  9. paw: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. paw: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. paw: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Paw, paw: Dictionary.com
  13. paw (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. paw: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. PAW, Paw (band), Paw (disambiguation), Paw (film), Paw, The Paw: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Paw: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. paw: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. paw: Rhymezone
  19. paw: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. paw: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. PAW: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. paw: Free Dictionary
  23. paw: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. paw: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. paw: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. PAW: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. PAW: Netlingo
  3. SMS Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. paw: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. paw: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. PAW: Acronym Finder
  2. PAW: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. paw, paw, paw: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. P.A.W, p.a.w, paw: Urban Dictionary
  3. Paw: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

(Note: See pawed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The soft foot of a mammal or other animal, generally a quadruped, that has claws or nails; comparable to a human hand or foot.
noun:  (humorous) A hand.
verb:  (of an animal) To go through something (such as a garbage can) with paws.
verb:  (of an animal) To gently push on something with a paw.
verb:  (of an animal) To draw the forefoot along the ground; to beat or scrape with the forefoot.
verb:  (by extension) To touch someone in a sexual way.
verb:  (by extension) To clumsily dig through something.
verb:  (transitive, dated) To flatter.
noun:  (nonstandard or rustic) Father; pa.
noun:  (uncountable) Abbreviation of plasma arc welding. (an arc welding technology)
noun:  (countable) Abbreviation of plasma arc weld. (a weld created with the PAW process)

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