diff --git a/pymemcache/client/base.py b/pymemcache/client/base.py
index bcfce10c..63add594 100644
--- a/pymemcache/client/base.py
+++ b/pymemcache/client/base.py
@@ -867,6 +867,30 @@ def version(self):
             raise MemcacheUnknownError("Received unexpected response: %s" % results[0])
         return after
 
+    def misc(self, command, end_tokens="\r\n"):
+        """
+        Sends an arbitrary command to the server and parses the response until a
+        specified token is encountered.
+
+        Args:
+            command: str|bytes: The command to send.
+            end_tokens: str|bytes: The token expected at the end of the
+                response. If the `end_token` is not found, the client will wait
+                until the timesout specified in the constructor.
+
+        Returns:
+            The response from the server, with the `end_token` removed.
+        """
+        encoding = "utf8" if self.allow_unicode_keys else "ascii"
+        command = command.encode(encoding) if isinstance(command, str) else command
+        end_tokens = end_tokens.encode(encoding) if isinstance(end_tokens, str) else end_tokens
+        return self._misc_cmd(
+            [b"" + command + b"\r\n"],
+            command,
+            False,
+            end_tokens
+        )[0]
+
     def flush_all(self, delay=0, noreply=None):
         """
         The memcached "flush_all" command.
@@ -1126,7 +1150,14 @@ def _store_cmd(self, name, values, expire, noreply, flags=None, cas=None):
             self.close()
             raise
 
-    def _misc_cmd(self, cmds, cmd_name, noreply):
+    def _misc_cmd(self, cmds, cmd_name, noreply, end_tokens=None):
+
+        # If no end_tokens have been given, just assume standard memcached
+        # operations, which end in "\r\n", use regular code for that.
+        _reader = _readline
+        if end_tokens:
+            _reader = lambda _sock, _buf: _readsegment(_sock, _buf, end_tokens)
+
         if self.sock is None:
             self._connect()
 
@@ -1141,7 +1172,7 @@ def _misc_cmd(self, cmds, cmd_name, noreply):
             line = None
             for cmd in cmds:
                 try:
-                    buf, line = _readline(self.sock, buf)
+                    buf, line = _reader(self.sock, buf)
                 except MemcacheUnexpectedCloseError:
                     self.close()
                     raise
@@ -1502,6 +1533,41 @@ def _readvalue(sock, buf, size):
     return buf[rlen:], b"".join(chunks)
 
 
+def _readsegment(sock, buf, end_tokens):
+    """Read a segment from the socket.
+
+    Read a segment from the socket, up to the first end_token sub-string/bytes,
+    and return that segment.
+
+    Args:
+        sock: Socket object, should be connected.
+        buf: bytes, zero or more bytes, returned from an earlier
+            call to _readline, _readsegment or _readvalue (pass an empty
+            byte-string on the first call).
+        end_tokens: bytes, indicates the end of the segment, generally this is
+            b"\\r\\n" for memcached.
+
+    Returns:
+      A tuple of (buf, line) where line is the full line read from the
+      socket (minus the end_tokens bytes) and buf is any trailing
+      characters read after the end_tokens was found (which may be an empty
+      bytes object).
+
+    """
+    result = bytes()
+
+    while True:
+
+        if buf.find(end_tokens) != -1:
+            before, sep, after = buf.partition(end_tokens)
+            result += before
+            return after, result
+
+        buf = _recv(sock, RECV_SIZE)
+        if not buf:
+            raise MemcacheUnexpectedCloseError()
+
+
 def _recv(sock, size):
     """sock.recv() with retry on EINTR"""
     while True:
diff --git a/pymemcache/test/test_client.py b/pymemcache/test/test_client.py
index 421d9236..1f67744c 100644
--- a/pymemcache/test/test_client.py
+++ b/pymemcache/test/test_client.py
@@ -1144,6 +1144,67 @@ def test_version_exception(self):
         with pytest.raises(MemcacheUnknownError):
             client.version()
 
+    def test_misc_command_default_end_tokens(self):
+        client = self.make_client([b"REPLY\r\n", b"REPLY\r\nLEFTOVER"])
+        result = client.misc(b"misc")
+        assert result == b"REPLY"
+        result = client.misc(b"misc")
+        assert result == b"REPLY"
+
+    def test_misc_command_custom_end_tokens(self):
+        client = self.make_client([
+            b"REPLY\r\nEND\r\n",
+            b"REPLY\r\nEND\r\nLEFTOVER",
+            b"REPLYEND\r\nLEFTOVER",
+            b"REPLY\nLEFTOVER",
+        ])
+        end_tokens = b"END\r\n"
+        result = client.misc(b"misc", end_tokens)
+        assert result == b"REPLY\r\n"
+        result = client.misc(b"misc", end_tokens)
+        assert result == b"REPLY\r\n"
+        result = client.misc(b"misc", end_tokens)
+        assert result == b"REPLY"
+        result = client.misc(b"misc", b"\n")
+        assert result == b"REPLY"
+
+    def test_misc_command_missing_end_tokens(self):
+        client = self.make_client([b"REPLY", b"REPLY"])
+        with pytest.raises(IndexError):
+            client.misc(b"misc")
+        with pytest.raises(IndexError):
+            client.misc(b"misc", b"END\r\n")
+
+    def test_misc_command_empty_end_tokens(self):
+        client = self.make_client([b"REPLY"])
+
+        with pytest.raises(IndexError):
+            client.misc(b"misc", b"")
+
+    def test_misc_command_types(self):
+        client = self.make_client([
+            b"REPLY\r\n",
+            b"REPLY\r\n",
+            b"REPLY\r\nLEFTOVER",
+            b"REPLY\r\nLEFTOVER"
+        ])
+        assert client.misc("key") == b"REPLY"
+        assert client.misc(b"key") == b"REPLY"
+        assert client.misc("key") == b"REPLY"
+        assert client.misc(b"key") == b"REPLY"
+
+    def test_misc_end_token_types(self):
+        client = self.make_client([
+            b"REPLY\r\n",
+            b"REPLY\r\n",
+            b"REPLY\r\nLEFTOVER",
+            b"REPLY\r\nLEFTOVER"
+        ])
+        assert client.misc("key", "\r\n") == b"REPLY"
+        assert client.misc(b"key", b"\r\n") == b"REPLY"
+        assert client.misc("key", "\r\n") == b"REPLY"
+        assert client.misc(b"key", b"\r\n") == b"REPLY"
+
 
 @pytest.mark.unit()
 class TestClientSocketConnect(unittest.TestCase):