Contra

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Contra is a Latin preposition meaning "against". It is sometimes abbreviated to con, as in "pros and cons"; con- is found as a prefix to many words. In Latin “pros and cons” is a shortening of “pro et contra”, which means “for and against”. Contra may refer to:

• Contra (citation signal), a term used in legal citations
• Contras, Nicaraguan counter-revolutionaries opposed to the Sandinistas
  • Iran–Contra affair, the Reagan administration selling weapons to Iran to fund the Contras

Media

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

Music

• Contra (album), the second album by Vampire Weekend
• Contra dance, several folk dance styles in which couples dance in two facing lines of indefinite length
• Contra-alto and Contrabass clarinets
• Contrabass bugle, the lowest-pitched instrument in the drum and bugle corps hornline
• Contrabass saxophone and Subcontrabass saxophones
• Contrabassoon, or double bassoon, a larger version of the bassoon sounding an octave lower

Video games

• Contra, a Command & Conquer: Generals – Zero Hour modification
• Contra (series), a line of run and gun video games created by Konami
  • Contra (video game), the original game, released in 1987

People

• Cosmin Contra (born 1975), Romanian football player

Places

• Contra, Virginia
• Contra Costa Canal
• Contra Costa County, California
• Tenero-Contra, a municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland

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