diff --git a/src/utils.jl b/src/utils.jl
index 4f4e440f87..347ff20241 100644
--- a/src/utils.jl
+++ b/src/utils.jl
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ const AArray = AbstractArray
 initn(dims...) = randn(dims...)/100
 
 unsqueeze(xs, dim = 1) = reshape(xs, (size(xs)[1:dim-1]..., 1, size(xs)[dim:end]...))
+squeeze(xs, dim = 1) = Base.squeeze(xs, dim)
 
 stack(xs, dim = 1) = cat(dim, unsqueeze.(xs, dim)...)
 unstack(xs, dim = 1) = [slicedim(xs, dim, i) for i = 1:size(xs, dim)]
diff --git a/test/recurrent.jl b/test/recurrent.jl
index 7610ea1300..3f04d6c48d 100644
--- a/test/recurrent.jl
+++ b/test/recurrent.jl
@@ -13,5 +13,5 @@ end
   _, ys = apply(unroll1(r).model, xs, (r.y.x,))
   @test ys[1] == tanh(xs[1] * r.Wxy.x .+ r.y.x * r.Wyy.x .+ r.by.x)
   ru = unroll(r, 3)
-  ru(batchone(Seq(squeeze.(xs, 1))))[1] == squeeze.(ys, 1)
+  ru(batchone(Seq(squeeze.(xs))))[1] == squeeze.(ys)
 end
diff --git a/test/runtests.jl b/test/runtests.jl
index e110725ee3..4a86c6e504 100644
--- a/test/runtests.jl
+++ b/test/runtests.jl
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 using Flux, DataFlow, MacroTools, Base.Test
-using Flux: graph, Param, unsqueeze
+using Flux: graph, Param, squeeze, unsqueeze
 using DataFlow: Line, Frame
 
 macro mxonly(ex)