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What is a Contra?

What is a Contra? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A member of any of various rightist guerrilla groups violently opposing the socialist Sandinista government of Nicaragua and secretly funded by the United States government in the 1980s.
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The Pacific Rim Recycling plant in Benicia serves the Central Contra Costa County residential recycling stream.
At an altitude of five hundred feet, the pigeon drove on over the town of Berkeley and lifted its flight to the Contra Costa hills.
Contra the amnesiac tendencies of much Pop, these apparitional vistas intimate the abiding presence of history, however ruinous and partial.
Began in the Contra Costa in Oakland when I was eleven, shakin' out for the mangle.
On the orders of the Reagan administration, the CIA mined Nicaragua's Sandino port in 1984 in support of the Contra guerrilla group.
And the Iran Contra crisis introduced a new weapon into the spin doctor's armoury.

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