diff --git a/docs/docs/api/Dispatcher.md b/docs/docs/api/Dispatcher.md
index d531efec07c..e77b7771114 100644
--- a/docs/docs/api/Dispatcher.md
+++ b/docs/docs/api/Dispatcher.md
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ Returns: `Boolean` - `false` if dispatcher is busy and further dispatch calls wo
 * **headers** `UndiciHeaders | string[]` (optional) - Default: `null`.
 * **query** `Record<string, any> | null` (optional) - Default: `null` - Query string params to be embedded in the request URL. Note that both keys and values of query are encoded using `encodeURIComponent`. If for some reason you need to send them unencoded, embed query params into path directly instead.
 * **idempotent** `boolean` (optional) - Default: `true` if `method` is `'HEAD'` or `'GET'` - Whether the requests can be safely retried or not. If `false` the request won't be sent until all preceding requests in the pipeline has completed.
-* **blocking** `boolean` (optional) - Default: `false` - Whether the response is expected to take a long time and would end up blocking the pipeline. When this is set to `true` further pipelining will be avoided on the same connection until headers have been received.
+* **blocking** `boolean` (optional) - Default: `method !== 'HEAD'` - Whether the response is expected to take a long time and would end up blocking the pipeline. When this is set to `true` further pipelining will be avoided on the same connection until headers have been received.
 * **upgrade** `string | null` (optional) - Default: `null` - Upgrade the request. Should be used to specify the kind of upgrade i.e. `'Websocket'`.
 * **bodyTimeout** `number | null` (optional) - The timeout after which a request will time out, in milliseconds. Monitors time between receiving body data. Use `0` to disable it entirely. Defaults to 300 seconds.
 * **headersTimeout** `number | null` (optional) - The amount of time, in milliseconds, the parser will wait to receive the complete HTTP headers while not sending the request. Defaults to 300 seconds.
@@ -1021,7 +1021,7 @@ The `dns` interceptor enables you to cache DNS lookups for a given duration, per
   - It can be either `'4` or `6`.
   - It will only take effect if `dualStack` is `false`.
 - `lookup: (hostname: string, options: LookupOptions, callback: (err: NodeJS.ErrnoException | null, addresses: DNSInterceptorRecord[]) => void) => void` - Custom lookup function. Default: `dns.lookup`.
-  - For more info see [dns.lookup](https://nodejs.org/api/dns.html#dns_dns_lookup_hostname_options_callback). 
+  - For more info see [dns.lookup](https://nodejs.org/api/dns.html#dns_dns_lookup_hostname_options_callback).
 - `pick: (origin: URL, records: DNSInterceptorRecords, affinity: 4 | 6) => DNSInterceptorRecord` - Custom pick function. Default: `RoundRobin`.
   - The function should return a single record from the records array.
   - By default a simplified version of Round Robin is used.
diff --git a/test/client-pipelining.js b/test/client-pipelining.js
index 475b826c62d..b62357f03e0 100644
--- a/test/client-pipelining.js
+++ b/test/client-pipelining.js
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ test('20 times GET with pipelining 10', async (t) => {
 })
 
 function makeRequestAndExpectUrl (client, i, t, cb) {
-  return client.request({ path: '/' + i, method: 'GET' }, (err, { statusCode, headers, body }) => {
+  return client.request({ path: '/' + i, method: 'GET', blocking: false }, (err, { statusCode, headers, body }) => {
     cb()
     t.ifError(err)
     t.strictEqual(statusCode, 200)
@@ -587,7 +587,8 @@ test('pipelining empty pipeline before reset', async (t) => {
 
       client.request({
         path: '/',
-        method: 'GET'
+        method: 'GET',
+        blocking: false
       }, (err, data) => {
         t.ifError(err)
         data.body
diff --git a/types/dispatcher.d.ts b/types/dispatcher.d.ts
index 7a9810a2c47..8b9e633d730 100644
--- a/types/dispatcher.d.ts
+++ b/types/dispatcher.d.ts
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ declare namespace Dispatcher {
     query?: Record<string, any>;
     /** Whether the requests can be safely retried or not. If `false` the request won't be sent until all preceding requests in the pipeline have completed. Default: `true` if `method` is `HEAD` or `GET`. */
     idempotent?: boolean;
-    /** Whether the response is expected to take a long time and would end up blocking the pipeline. When this is set to `true` further pipelining will be avoided on the same connection until headers have been received. */
+    /** Whether the response is expected to take a long time and would end up blocking the pipeline. When this is set to `true` further pipelining will be avoided on the same connection until headers have been received. Defaults to `method !== 'HEAD'`. */
     blocking?: boolean;
     /** Upgrade the request. Should be used to specify the kind of upgrade i.e. `'Websocket'`. Default: `method === 'CONNECT' || null`. */
     upgrade?: boolean | string | null;