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Contra

The English word “Contra” has 1 meaning listed here.

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.

Etymology

Short for Spanish contrarrevolucionarios (“counter-revolutionaries”).

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