CONTRA

'Contra' is a Latin preposition meaning "against". It may refer to:

★ Contras, Nicaraguan counter-revolutionaries opposed to the Sandinistas

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★ Iran-Contra Affair, the Reagan administration selling weapons to Iran to fund the Contras

★ ''Contra'' (series), a line of run and gun video games created by Konami

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★ ''Contra'' (arcade game), the original, released in 1987

★ Contra dance, several folk dance styles in which couples dance in two facing lines of indefinite length

★ Cosmin Contra, a Romanian football player

★ Contra (Swedish magazine), an anti-socialist magazine in Sweden

★ Contra (London magazine), a magazine for universities in Greater London

★ Contra (citation signal), in legal citation

★ Contra (font), by Apostrophic Labs

★ Tenero-Contra, a municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland
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★ Contrabassoon, or double bassoon, a larger version of the bassoon sounding an octave lower

★ Contra-alto and Contrabass clarinets

★ Contrabass and Subcontrabass saxophones

★ Contrabass bugle, the lowest-pitched instrument in the drum and bugle corps hornline

★ Contra (Canadian electronic musician)

★ Contra (band), a punk band from Long Island, New York