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headed
heading, headed
In BrE the expression meaning ‘to be going in a particular direction’ is to be heading for (in physical and figurative contexts, e.g. heading for trouble). In AmE to be headed for is also common and this form is beginning to appear in BrE and other varieties of English:

• You're bloody cheerful…for a bloke that's headed for a number one reaming [= reprimand] from the CO —J. Charlton, 1976

• They were headed for the perilous North Channel…if they survived the wolfpacks —D. Grant, 1980

• Deng Xiaoping barreled on down the capitalist road last week —but he might be headed for a collision —Bulletin (Sydney), 1984

• They were all headed for Ralph's house —New Yorker, 1991.


Modern English usage. 2014.

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