piñata
(in Mexico and Central America) colorful papier-mâché figure or cheerfully decorated crock filled with toys, candy, etc., and suspended from above, especially during Christmas or birthday festivities, so that children, who are blindfolded, may break it or knock it down with sticks and release the contents.
Origin of piñata
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How to use piñata in a sentence
In the aftermath, the magazine published a slew of stories on what elements tumbled out when uranium cracked like a particulate piñata, on the prospects for using atomic energy as a fuel source or a weapon, and so on.
I’d paid for a piñata over the phone, and she’d brought it to dinner so I wouldn’t have to trek half an hour to her store downtown.
British Dictionary definitions for piñata
/ (ˌpɪnˈjata) /
a papier-mâché party decoration filled with sweets, hung up during parties, and struck with a stick until it breaks open
Origin of piñata
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