diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
index 4271fc25976..3e40faf79d5 100644
--- a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
@@ -579,7 +579,6 @@ For an example of the usage of queues for interprocess communication see
       :exc:`queue.Empty` exception (*timeout* is ignored in that case).
 
    .. method:: get_nowait()
-               get_no_wait()
 
       Equivalent to ``get(False)``.