diff --git a/Changes.md b/Changes.md
index 4105d116..12881e30 100644
--- a/Changes.md
+++ b/Changes.md
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ Please see [Upgrading.md](Upgrading.md) for more comprehensive upgrade notes.
 - Remove deprecated support for the old Sidekiq::Worker#retries\_exhausted method.
 - Remove usage of the term 'Worker' in the UI for clarity.  Users would call both threads and
   processes 'workers'.  Instead, use "Thread", "Process" or "Job".
+- Add new 💣 alias for #clear in API.
 
 2.17.7
 -----------
diff --git a/lib/sidekiq/api.rb b/lib/sidekiq/api.rb
index afd66e5c..2ecd83ad 100644
--- a/lib/sidekiq/api.rb
+++ b/lib/sidekiq/api.rb
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+# encoding: utf-8
 require 'sidekiq'
 
 module Sidekiq
@@ -155,6 +156,7 @@ module Sidekiq
         end
       end
     end
+    alias_method :💣, :clear
   end
 
   ##
@@ -282,6 +284,7 @@ module Sidekiq
         conn.del(name)
       end
     end
+    alias_method :💣, :clear
   end
 
   class JobSet < SortedSet
diff --git a/lib/sidekiq/fetch.rb b/lib/sidekiq/fetch.rb
index fc29da59..6543b8b5 100644
--- a/lib/sidekiq/fetch.rb
+++ b/lib/sidekiq/fetch.rb
@@ -140,10 +140,10 @@ module Sidekiq
       end
     end
 
-    # Creating the Redis#blpop command takes into account any
-    # configured queue weights. By default Redis#blpop returns
+    # Creating the Redis#brpop command takes into account any
+    # configured queue weights. By default Redis#brpop returns
     # data from the first queue that has pending elements. We
-    # recreate the queue command each time we invoke Redis#blpop
+    # recreate the queue command each time we invoke Redis#brpop
     # to honor weights and avoid queue starvation.
     def queues_cmd
       queues = @strictly_ordered_queues ? @unique_queues.dup : @queues.shuffle.uniq