If a guy always defends you when people pick on you does he like you?

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One of the supervisors is very silly and loves to joke around and tease people. He loves to tease me to no end and come in my office and shut my lights and he touches the stuff on my desk and makes silly jokes etc. my coworker thinks he's into me

however if anyone else at my work tries to pick on me he defends me. One of the staff yesterday likes to make fake insults as a joke and he did that to me and my super jumped in and told him to leave me alone. Then another guy made a joke that I will get fired and the supervisor told the guy he would not fire me. Then this girl was being obnoxious and the supervisor stood up for me.

He literally always defends me or takes my side if people irritate me or pick on me. He teases me a lot but it's like no one else can or hell jump in lol. Yesterday he also kept telling me he's very proud of me and I did a great job in something-and he's usually making jokes so I was shocked he actually said something directly nice. He told other people what a great job I did too.

If he's always defending me and looking out for me (and he doesn't usually do this I see how he interacts with my coworkers) does he like me?
If a guy always defends you when people pick on you does he like you?
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