diff --git a/src/Psalm/Internal/Type/TypeTokenizer.php b/src/Psalm/Internal/Type/TypeTokenizer.php
index 846062c7fc3..a3e96874d3c 100644
--- a/src/Psalm/Internal/Type/TypeTokenizer.php
+++ b/src/Psalm/Internal/Type/TypeTokenizer.php
@@ -54,7 +54,6 @@ class TypeTokenizer
         'stringable-object' => true,
         'pure-callable' => true,
         'pure-Closure' => true,
-        'mysql-escaped-string' => true, // deprecated, should be removed in Psalm 5
         'literal-string' => true,
         'non-empty-literal-string' => true,
         'lowercase-string' => true,
diff --git a/tests/TypeComparatorTest.php b/tests/TypeComparatorTest.php
index 1092cdfb11f..4496e8fa94f 100644
--- a/tests/TypeComparatorTest.php
+++ b/tests/TypeComparatorTest.php
@@ -73,7 +73,6 @@ public function getAllBasicTypes(): array
             $basic_generic_types,
             [
                 'open-resource' => true, // unverifiable
-                'mysql-escaped-string' => true, // deprecated
                 'non-empty-countable' => true, // bit weird, maybe a bug?
             ]
         );