diff --git a/doc/admin-guide/plugins/slice.en.rst b/doc/admin-guide/plugins/slice.en.rst
index 859b468f5b2..f14bd60c254 100644
--- a/doc/admin-guide/plugins/slice.en.rst
+++ b/doc/admin-guide/plugins/slice.en.rst
@@ -111,17 +111,6 @@ The slice plugin supports the following options::
         Requires setting up an intermediate loopback remap rule.
         -r for short
 
-    --throttle (optional)
-        Under certain circumstances where many contiguous slices are in
-        RAM cache ATS will aggressively try to push these through the
-        slice plugin.  The downside of this is that all these contiguous
-        slices end up being marked as fresh even if the downstream
-        client aborts.  This option keeps track of how much data the
-        client has already passed down and slows down issuing new
-        slice requests.
-        Normally leave this off.
-        -o for short
-
 Examples::
 
     @plugin=slice.so @pparam=--blockbytes=1000000 @plugin=cache_range_requests.so
diff --git a/plugins/experimental/slice/Config.cc b/plugins/experimental/slice/Config.cc
index 0408389b417..2cce89c1e16 100644
--- a/plugins/experimental/slice/Config.cc
+++ b/plugins/experimental/slice/Config.cc
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ Config::fromArgs(int const argc, char const *const argv[])
   // getopt assumes args start at '1' so this hack is needed
   char *const *argvp = (const_cast<char *const *>(argv) - 1);
   for (;;) {
-    int const opt = getopt_long(argc + 1, argvp, "b:de:i:lop:r:t:", longopts, nullptr);
+    int const opt = getopt_long(argc + 1, argvp, "b:de:i:lp:r:t:", longopts, nullptr);
     if (-1 == opt) {
       break;
     }