claw toe

English

Noun

claw toe (countable and uncountable, plural claw toes)

1. (uncountable) A deformity of the toe characterized by a raised middle phalanx and a down-angled distal phalanx.
2. (countable) A toe with this deformity.
   • 1979 February 14, Jane E[llen] Brody, “Personal Health”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 February 2018:

     The large toes are also painfully jammed into the end of the shoe, and the front of the foot is crammed into the narrow tip, producing hammertoes and claw toes.