Usually means: Intercept before reaching intended destination.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (head off at the pass)

verb:  (transitive) To endeavor to catch someone or something as they pass a specific, known point, as at a pass between mountains.
verb:  (transitive) To forestall (something).

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