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Contra may refer to:
Media
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 (series), a line of run and gun video games created by Konami
- Contra (video game), the original game, released in 1987
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
Other uses
- 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
- Cosmin Contra (born 1975), Romanian football player
- Contra account or contra amount
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