Contra

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Contra may refer to:

Clothing

• Contra (clothing)

Places

• Contra, Virginia
• Contra Costa Canal, an aqueduct in the U.S. state of California
• Contra Costa County, California
• Tenero-Contra, a municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland

People

• Cosmin Contra (born 1975), Romanian football player

Legal and Political

• 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
• Contra account or contra amount

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
• Contra (band), a band from Cleveland
• Contra (song), a song by Logic

Games

• Contra (series), a line of run and gun video games created by Konami
  • Contra (video game), the original game, released in 1987
• Contra (cards), a bid to double the stakes in many card games