The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word CLAWS
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What does CLAWS mean?
CLAWS noun- A curved, pointed horny nail on each digit of the foot of a mammal, reptile, or bird.
- A foot equipped with such.
- The pincer (chela) of a crustacean or other arthropod.
- A mechanical device resembling a claw, used for gripping or lifting.
- A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, such as the base of petals of the pink.
- The act of catching a ball overhand.
- To scratch or to tear at.
- To use the claws to seize, to grip.
- To use the claws to climb.
- To perform a claw catch.
- To move with one's fingertips.
- To relieve uneasy feeling, such as an itch, by scratching; hence, to humor or flatter, to court someone.
- To rail at; to scold.
- To flatter; to fawn on (a person).