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paw

2 verb
     
Related topics: Animals
paw2 [intransitive and transitive]
1HBA if an animal paws a surface, it touches or rubs one place several times with its paw
paw at
The dog's pawing at the door again - let him out.
His horse pawed the ground.
2 informal to feel or touch someone in a rough or sexual way that is offensive:
He'd had too much to drink and started pawing me.
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