Contra

Contra is a Latin preposition (also used in English as a prefix) meaning "against". It may also 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

Finance

• Contra account or contra amount

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 (video game series), a line of run and gun video games created by Konami
  • Contra (video game), the original game, released in 1987

Software

• Contra (app), an iOS app by Lenny Khazan and Rohan Kapur

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