Pinata
noun
A colorful container often made of papier-mâché that is filled with candies or toys, and is usually broken as part of a celebration or game.
For her birthday party, they hung a pinata filled with candies from the tree in the backyard, and the kids had a great time trying to break it open.
Often appears as...
- hang a pinata
- break a pinata
noun
A colorful container often made of papier-mâché that is filled with candies or toys, and is usually broken as part of a celebration or game.
For her birthday party, they hung a pinata filled with candies from the tree in the backyard, and the kids had a great time trying to break it open.
Often appears as...
- hang a pinata
- break a pinata
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Pro Tip 1/3Cultural Significance
Pinatas are traditionally used in Mexican celebrations, especially at children's birthday parties and during Christmas time.
The posada party had a star-shaped pinata, representing the Mexican Christmas tradition.
Pro Tip 2/3Festive Atmosphere
The presence of a pinata usually implies a festive, informal event often involving family and fun activities.
They set up a pinata at the family reunion to add to the day's festivities.
Pro Tip 3/3Interactive Tradition
Breaking a pinata involves taking turns to hit it while blindfolded, adding a playful challenge for participants.
Children eagerly awaited their turn to be blindfolded and try to hit the pinata.
Pro Tip 1/3Cultural Significance
Pinatas are traditionally used in Mexican celebrations, especially at children's birthday parties and during Christmas time.
The posada party had a star-shaped pinata, representing the Mexican Christmas tradition.
Pro Tip 2/3Festive Atmosphere
The presence of a pinata usually implies a festive, informal event often involving family and fun activities.
They set up a pinata at the family reunion to add to the day's festivities.
Pro Tip 3/3Interactive Tradition
Breaking a pinata involves taking turns to hit it while blindfolded, adding a playful challenge for participants.
Children eagerly awaited their turn to be blindfolded and try to hit the pinata.
Pro Tip 1/3Cultural Significance
Pinatas are traditionally used in Mexican celebrations, especially at children's birthday parties and during Christmas time.
The posada party had a star-shaped pinata, representing the Mexican Christmas tradition.
Pro Tip 2/3Festive Atmosphere
The presence of a pinata usually implies a festive, informal event often involving family and fun activities.
They set up a pinata at the family reunion to add to the day's festivities.
Pro Tip 3/3Interactive Tradition
Breaking a pinata involves taking turns to hit it while blindfolded, adding a playful challenge for participants.
Children eagerly awaited their turn to be blindfolded and try to hit the pinata.
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Buy them something as a gift and give it to them. Then we can see, we've got teams that spend on themselves and these pro-social teams who we give money to make the team better. The reason I have a ridiculous pinata there is one team pooled their money and bought a pinata, they smashed the pinata, the candy fell out and things like that.
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animal that will be searching for food into the forest is important for them to learn how to search for food mainly they love it because it's something new so it made their imagination go farther so now time to fill up this little surprise box pretty monkey like a pinata you notice yeah I think you hit it and I can move
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is looking at the thing that was saying that this pinata might be pregnant and I'm sorry if you are in our squeamish you nearly need to look away now because that is a little baby niala that hasn't been born and it's quite well-developed it's really got its stripes and that's what she's busy pulling out and I said
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How to buy happiness -...
euro spend it on one of your team mates this week buy them something as a gift or a president give it to them and then we can see when now we've got teams that spend on themselves and we've got these pro-social teams who we give money to make the team a little better the reason I have a ridiculous pinata there is one of the teams pulled their money in bought a pinata and they all got around
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How to buy happiness PIPE...
Buy them something as a gift and give it to them. Then we can see, we've got teams that spend on themselves and these pro-social teams who we give money to make the team better. The reason I have a ridiculous pinata there is one team pooled their money and bought a pinata, they smashed the pinata, the candy fell out and things like that.
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Monkeys Play with...
animal that will be searching for food into the forest is important for them to learn how to search for food mainly they love it because it's something new so it made their imagination go farther so now time to fill up this little surprise box pretty monkey like a pinata you notice yeah I think you hit it and I can move
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Safari Live - Day 246 PIPE...
is looking at the thing that was saying that this pinata might be pregnant and I'm sorry if you are in our squeamish you nearly need to look away now because that is a little baby niala that hasn't been born and it's quite well-developed it's really got its stripes and that's what she's busy pulling out and I said
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Jon Watts
American Director
Have you ever seen the video of the kid with the Spider-Man pinata? He just sets the stick down, walks over, and gives the Spider-Man pinata a hug. He doesn't want to hurt his Spider-Man. He loves him! And I think that's a universal feeling towards Spider-Man. You just can't help but love him.
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Rachel Campos-Duffy
American Entertainer
My dad, grew up poor in a copper-mining town in Arizona. The eleventh of 15 children, he learned to be resourceful and entrepreneurial at a young age, shining shoes at local bars and starting his own pinata business at the tender age of twelve.
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Gordon Gee
American Educator
I joke that being a university president is akin to being a pinata. But there are also notions of redemption.
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Katie Couric
American Journalist
I feel like a human pinata. The disappointing thing is, no candy is going to spill out.
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Alec Baldwin
American Actor
Some days you're the kid with the stick, some days you're the pinata.
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Jon Watts
American Director
Have you ever seen the video of the kid with the Spider-Man pinata? He just sets the stick down, walks over, and gives the Spider-Man pinata a hug. He doesn't want to hurt his Spider-Man. He loves him! And I think that's a universal feeling towards Spider-Man. You just can't help but love him.
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Rachel Campos-Duffy
American Entertainer
My dad, grew up poor in a copper-mining town in Arizona. The eleventh of 15 children, he learned to be resourceful and entrepreneurial at a young age, shining shoes at local bars and starting his own pinata business at the tender age of twelve.
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Gordon Gee
American Educator
I joke that being a university president is akin to being a pinata. But there are also notions of redemption.
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Katie Couric
American Journalist
I feel like a human pinata. The disappointing thing is, no candy is going to spill out.
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Alec Baldwin
American Actor
Some days you're the kid with the stick, some days you're the pinata.
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