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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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They had clarinet choir today and he hated the fact that this had to happen to their Contra Player and not him, who it was intended for, but she seemed to be fine.
And the Iran Contra crisis introduced a new weapon into the spin doctor's armoury.
He ran aft, drew in the sheet, and filled on the long tack toward the Contra Costa Hills.
Police, army, and Sandinistas killed former Contras, and northern Contra bands committed similar acts, often because of land disputes.
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.
The Hungarian is on a three-year contract at the Hawthorns unlike Rumanian international Cosmin Contra who came on a year's loan from Athletico Madrid.

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