head off
verb
headed off; heading off; heads off
: to go to another place
See you later—I'm heading off to work.
Examples of head off in a Sentence
if we act quickly, we may still be able to head off disaster
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Bettmann Archive—Getty Images The play, which dramatized the Zoot Suit Riots, had broken box office records at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles in 1978 before heading off to Broadway.
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David Alvarado, Time, 15 Dec. 2025
Hoosiers headed off to work this morning may want to check their local road conditions first.
—Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 12 Dec. 2025
Burrow pitched in on the daily chores, feeding the livestock and working in the fields, and enjoyed track and cheerleading in high school before heading off to Beloit College in Wisconsin in 1982.
—Andrew Abrahams, PEOPLE, 11 Dec. 2025
The rate-setting FOMC is split between members who favor cuts to head off further weakness in the labor market and those who think easing has gone far enough and threatens to aggravate inflation.
—Christina Cheddar Berk, CNBC, 10 Dec. 2025
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David Alvarado, Time, 15 Dec. 2025
Hoosiers headed off to work this morning may want to check their local road conditions first.
—Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 12 Dec. 2025
Burrow pitched in on the daily chores, feeding the livestock and working in the fields, and enjoyed track and cheerleading in high school before heading off to Beloit College in Wisconsin in 1982.
—Andrew Abrahams, PEOPLE, 11 Dec. 2025
The rate-setting FOMC is split between members who favor cuts to head off further weakness in the labor market and those who think easing has gone far enough and threatens to aggravate inflation.
—Christina Cheddar Berk, CNBC, 10 Dec. 2025
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“Head off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/head%20off. Accessed 19 Dec. 2025.
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