What does it mean if he keeps saying I'm his best friend?

Anonymous
OK so one of my guy friends/crush keeps saying that I'm his best friend when I think that that is obviously not really true. so to recap a little, my friend flirts with me a LOT, like he'd say what he wants to do to me, he'd come like EXTREMELY close to my face so that our noses are pretty much touching (while sometimes pinning me to the wall), he'd put his arm around my waist, play with my hair, touch me just to say the smallest things, a TON of sex jokes about us together, just randomly walk over and start plucking me, hit my butt, tease me, etc. (well you get the picture). so anyway, we don't talk as much as he does with his other female and guy friends, yet when one of our friends asked why he kept messing with me one day he said "cause she's like my best friend" and then wen we were in the hallway alone during classes (coincidentally, because we were in different classes at the time) one day he started hugging me from behind really playfully but then another one of our friends saw us and she told him that he's got to stop hugging so many girls (which he does but trust me not like he was in the hallway) and then he said "but she's like my best friend" while still hugging me by the way. and so today wen we were about to leave school, he KEPT ON TOUCHING ME! and I mean A LOT! so he started pulling me in from behind by my waist and holding me so close that, of course, we were touching, so while he was holding me from behind another friend asked if I was his girlfriend and he shook his head and said "she's my best friend". and that boy would not let go of me! I mean I was about to miss my bus because he was like completely on top of me from behind while holding both of my wrists/hands and just like swinging them back and forth; so anyway, going back to my question, why is that he always immediately says that I'm his best friend wen it's pretty clear that I'm not (I would probably be considered just a regular friend). by the way he's not THAT physical with his other friends, and I only told you guys the clean stuff (I mean he'd hug them but he doesn't air hump them, yea you read it right, as you can see he's not the shy type at all).
What does it mean if he keeps saying I'm his best friend?
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