diff --git a/src/collection.cpp b/src/collection.cpp
index ab438dfb..8e306221 100644
--- a/src/collection.cpp
+++ b/src/collection.cpp
@@ -1352,7 +1352,9 @@ void Collection::parse_search_query(const std::string &query, std::vector<std::s
         bool exclude_operator_prior = false;
 
         for(auto& token: tokens) {
-            if(token[0] == '-') {
+            if(token == "-") {
+                continue;
+            } else if(token[0] == '-') {
                 exclude_operator_prior = true;
                 token = token.substr(1);
             }
diff --git a/test/collection_specific_test.cpp b/test/collection_specific_test.cpp
index 256d6eec..1758a540 100644
--- a/test/collection_specific_test.cpp
+++ b/test/collection_specific_test.cpp
@@ -1998,4 +1998,28 @@ TEST_F(CollectionSpecificTest, SearchShouldJoinToken) {
     ASSERT_EQ(0, results["hits"].size());
 
     collectionManager.drop_collection("coll1");
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
+
+TEST_F(CollectionSpecificTest, SingleHyphenInQueryNotToBeTreatedAsExclusion) {
+    std::vector<field> fields = {field("title", field_types::STRING, false),
+                                 field("points", field_types::INT32, false),};
+
+    Collection* coll1 = collectionManager.create_collection("coll1", 1, fields, "points").get();
+
+    nlohmann::json doc1;
+    doc1["id"] = "0";
+    doc1["title"] = "Saturday Short - Thrive (with Audio Descriptions + Open Captions)";
+    doc1["points"] = 100;
+
+    ASSERT_TRUE(coll1->add(doc1.dump()).ok());
+
+    auto results = coll1->search("Saturday Short - Thrive (with Audio Descriptions + Open Captions)", {"title"},
+                                 "", {}, {}, {2}, 10,
+                                 1, FREQUENCY, {true},
+                                 10, spp::sparse_hash_set<std::string>(),
+                                 spp::sparse_hash_set<std::string>(), 10, "", 30, 4, "title", 20, {}, {}, {}, 0,
+                                 "<mark>", "</mark>", {}, 1000, true).get();
+
+    ASSERT_EQ(1, results["hits"].size());
+    collectionManager.drop_collection("coll1");
+}