diff --git a/types/hapi/v17/definitions/server/server-options.d.ts b/types/hapi/v17/definitions/server/server-options.d.ts
index 407ebfd1c4..606dd701ba 100644
--- a/types/hapi/v17/definitions/server/server-options.d.ts
+++ b/types/hapi/v17/definitions/server/server-options.d.ts
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ export interface ServerOptions {
      * Default value: { minBytes: 1024 }.
      * Defines server handling of content encoding requests. If false, response content encoding is disabled and no compression is performed by the server.
      */
-    compression?: boolean;
+    compression?: boolean | object;
 
     /**
      * Default value: '1024'.