Contra may refer to:
Places
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Contra, Virginia
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Contra Costa Canal, an aqueduct in the U.S. state of California
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Contra Costa County, California
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Tenero-Contra
Tenero-Contra is a municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
Geography
Tenero-Contra has an area, , of . Of this area, or 27.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 45.5% is forested. Of the re ...
, a municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland
People
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Cosmin Contra (born 1975), Romanian football player
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Contra (writer) (real name Margus Konnula; born 1974), Estonian poet and translator
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Contra (rapper) (real name Çağdaş Terzi; born 1989), Turkish rapper and songwriter
Arts, entertainment, and media
Games
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Contra (card game)
Kontraspiel, also called Contra, is a German 5-card plain-trick game for four individual players using 24 cards. Eldest hand has the first right to accept or make trumps. The Unters of Acorns and Leaves (the equivalent of the two black Jacks) ar ...
, an historical German card game also known as Kontraspiel
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Contra (cards) Kontra or Contra is a term used in certain card games of Central European origin that is called by players to raise the stakes. It is the equivalent of "double" in other games. The term comes from the Latin word, ''contra'', which means "against". I ...
, a bid to double the stakes in many card games
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''Contra'' (series), a line of run and gun video games created by Konami
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''Contra'' (video game), the original game, released in 1987
Music and dance
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''Contra'' (album), the second album by Vampire Weekend
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Contra (band), a band from Cleveland
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"Contra" (song), a song by Logic
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Contra dance, several folk dance styles in which couples dance in two facing lines of indefinite length
Law and politics
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Contra (citation signal), a term used in legal citations
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Contra account, or contra amount
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Contras
The Contras were the various U.S.-backed and funded right-wing rebel groups that were active from 1979 to 1990 in opposition to the Marxist Sandinista Junta of National Reconstruction Government in Nicaragua, which came to power in 1979 fol ...
, 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
Musical instruments
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Contra-alto clarinet
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Contrabass bugle, the lowest-pitched instrument in the drum and bugle corps hornline
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Contrabass clarinet
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Contrabass saxophone
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Contrabassoon
The contrabassoon, also known as the double bassoon, is a larger version of the bassoon, sounding an octave lower. Its technique is similar to its smaller cousin, with a few notable differences.
Differences from the bassoon
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, or double bassoon, a larger version of the bassoon sounding an octave lower
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Subcontrabass saxophone
The subcontrabass saxophone is the largest of the family of saxophones that Adolphe Sax patented in 1846 and planned to build, but never constructed. Sax called this imagined instrument the ''saxophone bourdon'', named after the very low-pitched ...
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