diff --git a/types/timeout/index.d.ts b/types/timeout/index.d.ts
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+// Type definitions for timeout 0.2
+// Project: https://github.com/amccollum/timeout
+// Definitions by: newt <https://github.com/itsnewt>
+// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
+
+export function timeout(name?: string, ms?: number, callback?: () => void): string;
diff --git a/types/timeout/timeout-tests.ts b/types/timeout/timeout-tests.ts
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+++ b/types/timeout/timeout-tests.ts
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+import { timeout } from 'timeout';
+
+timeout('name', 10, () => console.log('I work!')); // $ExpectType string
diff --git a/types/timeout/tsconfig.json b/types/timeout/tsconfig.json
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+{
+    "compilerOptions": {
+        "module": "commonjs",
+        "lib": [
+            "es6",
+            "dom"
+        ],
+        "noImplicitAny": true,
+        "noImplicitThis": true,
+        "strictFunctionTypes": true,
+        "strictNullChecks": true,
+        "baseUrl": "../",
+        "typeRoots": [
+            "../"
+        ],
+        "types": [],
+        "noEmit": true,
+        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true
+    },
+    "files": [
+        "index.d.ts",
+        "timeout-tests.ts"
+    ]
+}
diff --git a/types/timeout/tslint.json b/types/timeout/tslint.json
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+{ "extends": "dtslint/dt.json" }