noun The state of a society being without authorities or an authoritative governing body.
noun The political theory that a community is best organized by the voluntary cooperation of individuals, rather than by a government, which is regarded as being coercive by nature.
noun A chaotic and confusing absence of any form of political authority or government.
noun Confusion in general; disorder.
It was total anarchy in the clothes shop on Black Friday as soon as they opened the doors.