Where's The Definition ?

[British_Olympics]

Standards are slipping:

Picked up a dear bachelor, camp at heart, swinging either way (5)

[mac44]

bambi

[nescio]

"Picked up a dear" is the definition.
i.e. picked up = heard , so "dear" is heard as "deer"

[logophile]

'Picked up a dear' is actually a cryptic indication of the answer (a homophone), so B_O is quite correct, this clue has no definition, ooops !