diff --git a/types/ee-first/ee-first-tests.ts b/types/ee-first/ee-first-tests.ts
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+import first = require('ee-first');
+import { EventEmitter } from 'events';
+
+class Foo extends EventEmitter {
+    foo: 'foo';
+}
+
+class Bar extends EventEmitter {
+    bar: 'bar';
+}
+
+const ee1 = new Foo();
+const ee2 = new Bar();
+
+const thunk = first<Foo | Bar>(
+    [[ee1, 'close', 'end', 'error'], [ee2, 'error']],
+    (err, ee, event, args) => {
+        err; // $ExpectType any
+        ee; // $ExpectType Foo | Bar
+        event; // $ExpectType string[]
+        args; // $ExpectType any[]
+    }
+);
+
+thunk((err, ee, event, args) => {
+    err; // $ExpectType any
+    ee; // $ExpectType Foo | Bar
+    event; // $ExpectType string[]
+    args; // $ExpectType any[]
+});
+
+thunk.cancel();
diff --git a/types/ee-first/index.d.ts b/types/ee-first/index.d.ts
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+// Type definitions for ee-first 1.1
+// Project: https://github.com/jonathanong/ee-first
+// Definitions by: BendingBender <https://github.com/BendingBender>
+// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
+// TypeScript Version: 3.0
+
+/// <reference types="node" />
+
+import { EventEmitter } from 'events';
+
+export = first;
+
+/**
+ * Get the first event in a set of event emitters and event pairs, then clean up after itself.
+ * Invoke `listener` on the first event from the list specified in `eventSpec`.
+ *
+ * @param eventSpec Array of arrays, with each array in the format `[ee, ...event]`.
+ * @param listener Will be called only once, the first time any of the given events are emitted.
+ * If `error` is one of the listened events, then if that fires first, the `listener` will be given the `err` argument.
+ * `listener`'s arguments:
+ * - `err`: the first argument emitted from an error event, if applicable
+ * - `ee`: the event emitter that fired
+ * - `event`: the string event name that fired
+ * - `args`: an array of the arguments that were emitted on the event
+ */
+declare function first<TEmitter extends EventEmitter>(
+    eventSpec: Array<[TEmitter, ...string[]]>,
+    listener: first.Listener<TEmitter>
+): first.Thunk<TEmitter>;
+
+declare namespace first {
+    type Listener<TEmitter extends EventEmitter> = (
+        err: any,
+        ee: TEmitter,
+        event: string[],
+        args: any[]
+    ) => void;
+
+    interface Thunk<TEmitter extends EventEmitter> {
+        (listener: Listener<TEmitter>): void;
+
+        /**
+         * The group of listeners can be cancelled before being invoked and have all the event listeners removed
+         * from the underlying event emitters.
+         */
+        cancel(): void;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/types/ee-first/tsconfig.json b/types/ee-first/tsconfig.json
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+{
+    "compilerOptions": {
+        "module": "commonjs",
+        "lib": [
+            "es6"
+        ],
+        "noImplicitAny": true,
+        "noImplicitThis": true,
+        "strictNullChecks": true,
+        "strictFunctionTypes": true,
+        "baseUrl": "../",
+        "typeRoots": [
+            "../"
+        ],
+        "types": [],
+        "noEmit": true,
+        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true
+    },
+    "files": [
+        "index.d.ts",
+        "ee-first-tests.ts"
+    ]
+}
diff --git a/types/ee-first/tslint.json b/types/ee-first/tslint.json
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+++ b/types/ee-first/tslint.json
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+{ "extends": "dtslint/dt.json" }