noun
- a decorated container filled with candy and toys that is hung up and hit with a stick until it breaks open, especially at parties
Usage: from Spanish
Examples
- The children took turns hitting the pinata at the birthday party.
- We filled the pinata with chocolate and small toys.
- The colorful pinata was shaped like a donkey.
- Everyone scrambled to collect the candy when the pinata broke open.
- She blindfolded the kids before they tried to break the pinata.
- The pinata hung from a tree branch in the backyard.