diff --git a/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 b/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
index 03a0238716..43eef2359a 100644
--- a/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
+++ b/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
@@ -1071,8 +1071,8 @@ Enables caching for the stream used by \-audiofile, using the specified
 amount of memory.
 .
 .TP
-.B \-[no]reuse-socket (udp:// only)
-Allows the socket to be reused by other processes as soon as this one closes it.
+.B \-reuse-socket (udp:// only)
+Allows a socket to be reused by other processes as soon as it is closed.
 .
 .TP
 .B \-bandwidth <value> (network only)