diff --git a/types/react-bootstrap-typeahead/index.d.ts b/types/react-bootstrap-typeahead/index.d.ts
index fa970bc5b3..d0bfcea9a7 100644
--- a/types/react-bootstrap-typeahead/index.d.ts
+++ b/types/react-bootstrap-typeahead/index.d.ts
@@ -3,12 +3,23 @@
 // Definitions by: Guymestef <https://github.com/Guymestef>
 //                 Rajab Shakirov <https://github.com/radziksh>
 //                 Paito Anderson <https://github.com/PaitoAnderson>
+//                 Andreas Richter <https://github.com/arichter83>
 // Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
 // TypeScript Version: 2.8
 // TODO: <Highlighter>, <Menu>, <MenuItem>, <Token> components
 
 import * as React from 'react';
 
+export interface TypeaheadFilterbyProps {
+  filterBy: string[];
+  labelKey: (string | (() => void));
+  multiple: boolean;
+  selected: any[];
+  caseSensitive: boolean;
+  ignoreDiacritics: boolean;
+  text: string;
+}
+
 export interface TypeaheadProps<T> {
     /* For localized accessibility: Should return a string indicating the number of results for screen readers. Receives the current results. */
     a11yNumResults?: () => void;
@@ -58,7 +69,7 @@ export interface TypeaheadProps<T> {
     emptyLabel?: string;
 
     /* Either an array of fields in option to search, or a custom filtering callback. */
-    filterBy?: (string[] | ((option: T | string, text: string) => boolean));
+    filterBy?: (string[] | ((option: T | string, props: TypeaheadFilterbyProps) => boolean));
 
     /* Highlights the menu item if there is only one result and allows selecting that item by hitting enter.
        Does not work with allowNew. */
diff --git a/types/react-bootstrap-typeahead/react-bootstrap-typeahead-tests.tsx b/types/react-bootstrap-typeahead/react-bootstrap-typeahead-tests.tsx
index 10237b1fa0..6c9143dfea 100644
--- a/types/react-bootstrap-typeahead/react-bootstrap-typeahead-tests.tsx
+++ b/types/react-bootstrap-typeahead/react-bootstrap-typeahead-tests.tsx
@@ -28,6 +28,14 @@ class BasicExample extends React.Component {
                     onInputChange={(value, e) => {}}
                     placeholder="Choose a state..."
                 />
+                <Typeahead
+                    labelKey="name"
+                    multiple={multiple}
+                    options={options}
+                    maxHeight='300px'
+                    filterBy={(option, props) => (props.text.indexOf(option) !== -1) }
+                    placeholder="Choose a state..."
+                />
             </div>
         );
     }