Contra

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

• Contras, Nicaraguan counter-revolutionaries opposed to the Sandinistas
  • 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
  • Contra (video 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 (citation signal), in legal citation
• Tenero-Contra, a municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland

Music

• 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

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